On Mon, Oct 31, 2005 at 11:38:50PM +1030, Tim wrote: > 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. Hmm... can you provide an example? I've never seen such a beast that I'm aware of. And IMO you shouldn't... localhost is localhost -- it isn't in a domain; that's the whole point. The entire 127.0.0.0/8 network refers to your local machine. I'm inclined to think that software which requires a domain is broken. -- Derek D. Martin http://www.pizzashack.org/ GPG Key ID: 0x81CFE75D
