Date: Sun, 04 Mar 2001 20:00:43 +0100 From: Mattias Pantzare <pantzer@ludd.luth.se> To: Tom <tom@uniserve.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: major resolver problems in -STABLE Message-ID: <200103041900.UAA16297@mother.ludd.luth.se> In-Reply-To: Message from Tom <tom@uniserve.com> of "Sun, 04 Mar 2001 09:26:14 PST." <Pine.BSF.4.10.10103040925170.35019-100000@athena.uniserve.ca>
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> = > On Sun, 4 Mar 2001, Mattias Pantzare wrote: > = > > No, that is simply not true. hostname is _not_ related to DNS. DNS na= mes = > > 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 t= hey are = > > broken. > = > No. "hostname" should be resolvable. Lots of applications want this= > (ie. sendmail). Then sendmail is broken (or misconfigured). But you are only partly right= , = sendmail uses hostname as the name of the sending computer and will add t= he = domainname if you leave it out of hostname. Sendmail will work even if th= e = hostname is totaly wrong, but your e-mails may be rejected fr=E5n the oth= er end. I have a lot of systems that do not have a FQDN, but a = resolvable name, that is a name that exists in the DNS domain they are pa= rt = of. I have not found a program that breaks because of that. But I have a trick question for you. What shoud I set as hostname if I ha= ve a = mobile computer that will have diffrent IP-adresses at diffrent times dur= ing a = session? And those are in diffrent DNS domains? And it is not connected t= o the = network when I turn it on? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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