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Subject: Re: major resolver problems in -STABLE 
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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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