On Sun, 2005-10-30 at 12:06 -0500, Derek Martin wrote: > Red Hat has configured some of its software to use > "localhost.localdomain" (which I always thought was brain-damaged), so > you'll need that in there as well. I can see why they've done something *like* that, as there's some networking things that will insist on there being at least one dot in the name, but I would have done it differently. e.g. machinename.localhost That would have used a name set aside (localhost) as a domain name that won't be used on the internet, satisfied the need for a dot in the name, made a sensible domain name structure for local networks, and doesn't prevent "localhost" from being used for 127.0.0.1. ;-\ -- Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.
