Hi. On Fri, Jul 05, 2019 at 08:27:50AM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > sudo does a hostname lookup because, for some reason incomprehensible to > mortal women and men, it has a "host" field on every configuration line.
And that reason is called LDAP-provided sudo configuration. One /etc/sudoers to rule them all and all that. Rarely used, and certainly an overkill for a single host, but is comprehensible. > So anyway, because of this "feature" that absolutely nobody uses, sudo > tries to look up your hostname, with multiple paths to failure if your > hostname is not properly defined. But then again, if a local hostname is resolved via DNS - a local resolver is misconfigured. If such resolution is impossible - sudo is only one of many things that will misbehave. Reco
