On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 3:57 PM, Russ Allbery <r...@debian.org> wrote: > 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 information inevitably gets out of date when systems are moved around or 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, Does not the Wheezy installer still place hostname.domain.name entries in /etc/hosts for said hostname? Or do you mean some entity other than Debian when you say, "we", or is "now" after the Wheezy release? Cheers, -mz -- 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/caolfk3vaz9x-xz4mruhmb_q6sjbndzgx7kedkownhvklhmq...@mail.gmail.com
