On Sun, Feb 12, 2006 at 04:40:51PM -0600, Graham Wilson wrote:
> I disagree with this patch. I believe the kernel hostname variable (the
> one that hostname(1) sets, and that {get,set}hostname(2) query and set)
> should not be a FQDN. Instead the FQDN should be looked up using
> gethostbyname(3) (which will in turn query /etc/hosts or a nameserver).
>
> Does someone else have a reason why this is not the case?
Whether we believe that it should be one or the other, FQDN's are
clearly conformant with the specification, and should be allowed.
lamont
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