Re: libnss-myhostname instead of mangling /etc/hosts

2010-06-16 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Joachim Breitner] > What do you think? To me, installing libnss-myshostname by default sound like a good idea. Perhaps only in the laptop task as a start? Happy hacking, -- Petter Reinholdtsen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe".

Re: libnss-myhostname instead of mangling /etc/hosts

2010-06-16 Thread Thomas Hood
One reason for resolving the system hostname to 127.0.1.1 in an NSS service is that this allows us to list that service last on the "hosts:" line in /etc/nsswitch.conf, thus making 127.0.1.1 the resolved address of last resort, coming after addresses resolved via /etc/hosts and/or DNS. Please

Re: libnss-myhostname instead of mangling /etc/hosts

2010-06-15 Thread Christoph Berg
Re: Joachim Breitner 2010-06-14 <1276516697.2751.7.ca...@kirk> > > at the moment, the Debian installer creates a /etc/hosts file > > containing the local host nameĀ¹, so that this name is resolvable even > > if not registered in the DNS. Unfortunately, this is a possible cause > > of problems when t

Re: libnss-myhostname instead of mangling /etc/hosts

2010-06-14 Thread Joachim Breitner
Hi joey, Am Sonntag, den 13.06.2010, 10:59 -0400 schrieb Joey Hess: > Joachim Breitner wrote: > > Would this be something that could be used by default in Debian, maybe > > for squeeze+1? > > You're suggesting making the package standard priority. This is not a > decision within the purvue of th