Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 13:56:32 +0100 From: mouss <usebsd@free.fr> To: Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: Archie Cobbs <archie@dellroad.org>, Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Setting default hostname to localhost Message-ID: <4.3.0.20010118135255.03aefe50@pop.free.fr> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1010117152229.70729B-100000@fledge.watson.o rg> References: <4.3.0.20010117202543.04e28280@pop.free.fr>
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At 15:24 17/01/01 -0500, Robert Watson wrote: >On the contrary, there are many applications that expect the results of a >gethostname() to resolve, and point to the local machine. It's arguable >that these applications are broken, but there are enough of them to raise >consideration. They include lpd, sdr, and cvsup. Consider that currently >you can't run the printer spooler if you don't have a hostname that >resolves to an IP; you're right. but in my understanding, the problem was transient: get a hostname to make DHCP works. or am I wrong here? anyway, I have nothing against "locallhost", but then I'd suggest modifying getty to make it coherent. regards, mouss To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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