Christoph Anton Mitterer <cales...@scientia.net> writes: > - The system hostname (and domainname if any) should ALWAYS be > resolvable, whether a network is up or not, regardless of which. > (Assuming that lo is always up, if not, many things break anyway.)
This principal (and the general UNIX tradition of putting the local host and IP address in /etc/hosts) has caused us no end of problems, since that information inevitably gets out of date when systems are moved around or re-IP'd. We now do not put the local hostname anywhere in /etc/hosts, and I believe that's the correct configuration for any system with stable DNS and network. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87y58n4vge....@windlord.stanford.edu
