From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Jan 12 9:28:37 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from harmony.village.org (rover.village.org [204.144.255.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 848AF37B402; Fri, 12 Jan 2001 09:28:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from harmony.village.org (localhost.village.org [127.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f0CHSHs81776; Fri, 12 Jan 2001 10:28:17 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Message-Id: <200101121728.f0CHSHs81776@harmony.village.org> To: Robert Watson Subject: Re: Setting default hostname to localhost Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 10 Jan 2001 21:23:13 EST." References: Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2001 10:28:17 -0700 From: Warner Losh Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message 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