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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


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