Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2001 09:26:14 -0800 (PST) From: Tom <tom@uniserve.com> To: Mattias Pantzare <pantzer@ludd.luth.se> Cc: Martti Kuparinen <martti.kuparinen@nomadiclab.com>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: major resolver problems in -STABLE Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10103040925170.35019-100000@athena.uniserve.ca> In-Reply-To: <200103041147.MAA03917@mother.ludd.luth.se>
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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 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. No. "hostname" should be resolvable. Lots of applications want this (ie. sendmail). Tom To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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