I raised a bug earlier https://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/9766 which
could be a can of worms.
My opinion is, facter has a bug and needs (eventual) fixing even if it
causes problems for some. There is a reason we have changelogs.
Debate?
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> 'Note that periods are only allowed when they serve to delimit components
> of "domain style names".'
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Let's give this sentence some context.
ASSUMPTIONS
1. A "name" (Net, Host, Gateway, or Domain name) is a text string up
to 24 characters drawn from the alphabet (A-Z), digits (0-9
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> but I don't think that RFC quoting alone is going to give us the right
> answer as to whether we should do it or not.
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100% agree.
To add to my point, facter should be reporting facts. If the hostname,
albeit possibly incorrectly, is set to "foo.bar" then it should report it
so.
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> Except that is the fqdn.
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No. "foo.bar" could be the hostname but foo.bar.example.com could be the
FQDN.
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> "I understand there are major implications to this and the task may be
> challenging, one suggestion would be to set up another facter
> parameter something like
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> uname.hostname
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> or
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> uname.domain
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> or perhaps a configuration parameter to use POSIX compliance parameters."
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> Which ma
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> Our concept of 'hostname' as a fact is equivalent to hostname -s up
>> until now - it doesn't mean the result of the 'hostname' command
>> necessarily.
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> This makes sense and is an easy compromise. Could I suggest the doco
> reflect that $hostname is `hostname -s`?
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... or at least your d
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> about. In fact, I think if you were to use periods it would confuse
> DNS resolve because it follows the same convention as stated in the
> RFC. If I were external trying to look up host.server.domain.com, my
> DNS would try to look for a nameserver for server.domain.com. You
> would still be f
