On Thu, 22 Nov 2018 at 02:12, ChenQi <qi.c...@windriver.com> wrote:
> >> 2) hostname may set to some value, e.g. qemux86-64, which is not an entry 
> >> in /etc/hosts
> >>     This results in lookup failure when using `hostname -f' as there's no 
> >> entry in /etc/hosts.
> > Let's fix the hostname setup so hosts is correct too.
>
> OK.
> Currently, we set hostname to ${MACHINE}. To ensure it's also an entry
> in /etc/hosts, it seems that we have to default it to 'localhost'. I'm
> going to test with this change. If you have other candidates, please let
> me know.

What I mean is when we change hostname, we should update hosts so
${MACHINE} is an alias for localhost.  Like my local machine has:

127.0.0.1 localhost
127.0.1.1 flashheart.burtonini.com flashheart

Ross
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