On Fri 12 Sep 2014 at 22:29:22 +0400, Reco wrote: > On Fri, 12 Sep 2014 11:23:56 +0100 > Brian <a...@cityscape.co.uk> wrote: > > > > But the most interesting is why there's a need for the whole library to > > > do the job if a couple of lines in /etc/hosts would do the job just > > > fine. > > > > A few posts back in this thread there is > > > > https://lists.debian.org/20140906161207.gn4...@copernicus.demon.co.uk > > > > The link it contains leads to another with a recent -devel discussion. > > There is a 10 year history with the issue; a search with "/etc/hosts" > > and "Thomas Hood" should bring up some of it. > > I assume you're referring to: > > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=247734 > > An interesting reading, thanks, but it looks on the problem from > somewhat different angle that I do. What I meant was: > > If one as perfectly valid (which seem to be a direct consequence of > #247734) /etc/hosts with the following values: > > 127.0.0.1 localhost > 127.0.1.1 <fqdn> <hostname>
I would tend to agree with this, if only because exim uses <fqdn> for a HELO/EHLO and it would require some thought to fit it into a framework using libnss-myhostname. It took long enough for us to get to something which worked reliably so my motivation for changing isn't great. For the moment libnss-myhostname on Jessie has only 3 rdepends (2 are Recommends:), but there has been talk of d-i installing it by default. That might see a change to the d-i generated /etc/hosts. > Why would one need libnss-myhostname in Debian? Especially if Debian > Installer generates such /etc/hosts for the last 10 years give or take? > > I acknowledge that there're other distributions than Debian, and they > used to do things differently (for example, comment 125 of #247734 > implies that RedHat did not generate such /etc/hosts back then), so to > address those other distributions' problem libnss-myhostname was > created. > > But using this library in Debian seem to be redundant at best. I think its ability to accomodate dynamic changes in the hostname is seen as an advantage. Never having experienced that, I'm unable to comment further. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20140912215217.gv4...@copernicus.demon.co.uk
