On Thursday 25 May 2006 22:14, Martin J. Bligh wrote:
> > 20:35 mason:/etc # rpm -qf `which hostname`
> > net-tools-1.60-37
> > 21:00 mason:/etc # hostname -v
> > gethostname()=`mason'
> > mason
> > 21:00 mason:/etc # hostname --fqdn
> > mason
> > 21:00 mason:/etc # domainname
> > (none)
> > 21:00 mason:/etc # dnsdomainname
> >
> >
> > Runs Aurora Linux 2.0.
>
> Ubuntu does this too:
>
> mbligh@flay:~$ hostname
> flay
> mbligh@flay:~$ hostname --fqdn
> localhost.localdomain
I think it's as Lennart suggested. From the man page for /etc/hosts ("man
hosts"), it seems to suggest that the format should be:
IP_address canonical_hostname aliases
On Ubuntu and approximately on my system, it's doing:
127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain <alias>
But the manpage suggests that "alias" might contain "localhost". On our
machines it contains the "name" we assigned the machine.
So, I think my hosts is screwed (because I don't have the .localdomain bit),
but I think Ubuntu is correct, and using the FQDN is not actually as
intuitive as you might think.
For identification purposes, an "alias" is probably more useful (in general)
than the FQDN, because the FQDN may well be something meaningless like
localhost.localdomain, which is "fully qualified" but isn't a _unique_
machine name, and thus not really a valid domain in a network context.
(The 'hostname' utility from net-tools is using the "canonical hostname"
from /etc/hosts as the value for the FQDN, but gethostname() for the regular
hostname.)
--
Cheers,
Alistair.
Third year Computer Science undergraduate.
1F2 55 South Clerk Street, Edinburgh, UK.
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