Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2001 11:45:07 -0800 (PST) From: Archie Cobbs <archie@dellroad.org> To: Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org> Cc: Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.ORG>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Setting default hostname to localhost Message-ID: <200101121945.LAA01072@curve.dellroad.org> In-Reply-To: <200101121728.f0CHSHs81776@harmony.village.org> "from Warner Losh at Jan 12, 2001 10:28:17 am"
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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
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