Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2001 10:28:17 -0700 From: Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org> To: Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Setting default hostname to localhost Message-ID: <200101121728.f0CHSHs81776@harmony.village.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 10 Jan 2001 21:23:13 EST." <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1010110211942.86697B-100000@fledge.watson.org> References: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1010110211942.86697B-100000@fledge.watson.org>
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In message <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1010110211942.86697B-100000@fledge.watson.org> Robert Watson writes: : Unless there are some really good reasons : not to (which there may be), I'd like to commit changes to -CURRENT's : /etc/default/rc.conf to change the default hostname to "localhost". We have localhost.com as one of our domains here in the Village. So long as this change doesn't generate traffic to us in any way, shape, or form, I'd say go for it. Sniff your network for traffic to/from 204.144.255.150 to see if it does or not. There have been bugs in the past that would cause this to be the case. There have also been bugs in the past where machines (not necessarily FreeBSD machines) whose hostname was foo.com (for all values of foo) would try to use localhost.com as the loopback address. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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