On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 8:56 PM, m. allan noah <kitno455 at gmail.com> wrote: > I'll agree with Ilia on this one- If you have dhcp enabled, your local > IP might not be in /etc/hosts, and you might not have a local dns > server that knows about your RFC-1918 addresses.
That is one of possible cases. Consider a system where hostname (local and registered in DNS) is completely useless. That could be a thin client (my case), improperly (from DNS point of view) configured system, but nothing prevents each of them serve as SANE network server, isn't it? -- Ilia Sotnikov
