On Tue, Feb 14, 2006 at 10:25:01AM +0100, Tore Anderson wrote: > > I think the rules that LaMont posted were the rules for FQDNs. My > > contention is that the kernel hostname variable is not meant to > > contain FQDNs, but only hostnames, which are single components of > > domain names (and therefore have not dots in them). Is there > > disagreement about this?
FQDNs did not exist at the time that RFC952 was written. Nonetheless, that RFC permits dots in hostnames... > > Even though I'm currently convinced the current behavior is correct, I > > don't think the stringent checking code adds anything terribly useful > > over what was there in the past, so it seems likely that I'll decide > > to remove it. > Hmm. You are aware that LaMont did an NMU a while back, right? I have not NMUed hostname in Debian. I did upload the package with my patch to Ubuntu though. lamont -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
