From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Jan 12 11:45:27 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from InterJet.dellroad.org (adsl-63-194-81-26.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [63.194.81.26]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3B42A37B400; Fri, 12 Jan 2001 11:45:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from curve.dellroad.org (curve.dellroad.org [10.1.1.30]) by InterJet.dellroad.org (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id LAA91666; Fri, 12 Jan 2001 11:45:07 -0800 (PST) Received: (from archie@localhost) by curve.dellroad.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id LAA01072; Fri, 12 Jan 2001 11:45:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from archie) From: Archie Cobbs Message-Id: <200101121945.LAA01072@curve.dellroad.org> Subject: Re: Setting default hostname to localhost In-Reply-To: <200101121728.f0CHSHs81776@harmony.village.org> "from Warner Losh at Jan 12, 2001 10:28:17 am" To: Warner Losh Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2001 11:45:07 -0800 (PST) Cc: Robert Watson , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL77 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Warner Losh 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. There is an RFC that specifies a "private use" top level domain, analogous to 192.168.0.0/16, 10.0.0.0/8, etc. The domain is ".local" so any default ending in ".local" should not conflict. -Archie ___________________________________________________________________________ Archie Cobbs * Whistle Communications, Inc. * http://www.whistle.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message