Date: Sun, 04 Mar 2001 12:46:58 +0100 From: Mattias Pantzare <pantzer@ludd.luth.se> To: Tom <tom@uniserve.com> Cc: Martti Kuparinen <martti.kuparinen@nomadiclab.com>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: major resolver problems in -STABLE Message-ID: <200103041147.MAA03917@mother.ludd.luth.se> In-Reply-To: Message from Tom <tom@uniserve.com> of "Tue, 27 Feb 2001 09:11:55 PST." <Pine.BSF.4.05.10102270910470.28368-100000@shell.uniserve.ca>
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> On Tue, 27 Feb 2001, Martti Kuparinen wrote:
>
> > On Tue, 27 Feb 2001, Martti Kuparinen wrote:
> >
> > > I upgraded today our 4.2-STABLE server and now we have major difficulties
> > > with DNS. For example, when I try to start the web server I see this in
> > > the logs:
> > >
> > > [Tue Feb 27 11:13:40 2001] [alert] mod_unique_id: unable to gethostbyname("ws2")
>
> Why isn't your hostname a FQDN? "hostname" should return the FQDN of
> your machine.
No, that is simply not true. hostname is _not_ related to DNS. DNS names
IP adresses, an IP adress names a interface, not a host.
You can set hostname to whatever you think looks nice.
If you have applications that depend on hostname beeing a FQDN then they are
broken.
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