While that makes perfect sense, in this particular case there is no remote
logging; it's all local, so using the local name should suffice.  But the
fact that glibc returns "arm-host" but uclibc gives "127.x.y.z" -- seems
to be strange to me.  There is no DNS (no network), and /etc/hosts
contains 'arm-host' in there, so that *should* work.  Could it be a uclibc
bug?

(NB: at this point I've swapped my systems over to glibc, but I'm happy to
help you debug on uclibc as long as you need).

-derek

On Thu, October 7, 2021 8:24 am, Rainer Gerhards wrote:
> and another one: why do we do this? Far too many systems are called
> "localhost" or some similar nonsense. So if we find indication this
> system is not properly identifying itself, we ask the resolver for its
> real name. Remember that a remote peer must be able to identify the
> host based on the hostname field, and putting nonsense into it isn't
> really helpful.
>
> Rainer


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       Computer and Internet Security Consultant

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