Lennart Sorensen <[email protected]> wrote:
> I always thought that was how it worked. The first hostname in
> /etc/hosts on the line containing the short name was used as the FQDN.
> Maybe that is only a gnu hostname thing. I seem to recall solaris had a
> domainname file that was used to find the domain part of the FQDN
> instead.
yes this is how hostname works (see the man page)
# Technically: The FQDN is the name gethostbyname(2) returns for the host
# name returned by gethostname(2). The DNS domain name is the part after
# the first dot.
# Therefore it depends on the configuration (usually in /etc/host.conf)
# how you can change it. Usually (if the hosts file is parsed before DNS or
# NIS) you can change it in /etc/hosts.
And yes, this is broken, but who used hostname -f anyway?
BTW: the above works also (better?) if you set the utsname to the FQDN like
Linus does.
Gruss
Bernd
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