Gabor Gombas <[email protected]> wrote:
> No. Hostname does not have to resolve to _anything_. The hostname is
> just a string that identifies the machine for _humans_. It is nothing
> more, nothing less. It follows that a hostname should be just as unique
> as it's human users are concerned, it has no relation to subnets or
> FQDN or any other network term.
There are some (common) applications which bind more meaning to that string.
Most noteable MTAs if they are configured to detect things automatically.
The kernel does not care (well I do ignore some exotic cluster, dlm,
remote-ipc, security stacks)
Gruss
Bernd
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