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Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2001 20:29:08 +0100
To: Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.ORG>
From: mouss <usebsd@free.fr>
Subject: Re: Setting default hostname to localhost
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At 21:16 16/01/01 -0500, Robert Watson wrote:
>The nice thing about "localhost" is that it already appears in
>/etc/hosts, and is a relatively reserved name, so unlikely to conflict too
>much based on resolution order.  I.e., amnesiac.res.cmu.edu is not an
>unlikely name.

sure, but I consider that the "hostname" variable has nothing to do with 
resolution.
you can call your host amnesiac and still "ping localhost" thanks to 
/etc/localhost.

in other words, callin it "amnesiac" has nothing to do with "amnesiac.foo.bar".


regards,
mouss



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