* Russ Allbery wrote [30.07.13 22:25]: > We (Stanford) strip them out in FAI. We can, of course, continue to do > that, but I thought I'd mention it as a data point. If you have stable > DNS, you really don't want to have another shadow source of IP to host > mapping on local disk; it's almost certain to cause you problems later.
If you are in a situation with no stable DNS you can use libnss-myhostname which resolves the hostname to your local configured IP addresses or 127.0.1.1 & ::1 if no IP address is configured. Ulrich -- 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/20130730220945.GB19874@shell
