On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 07:35:57PM +0000, Clint Adams wrote: > A FQDN _is_ a hostname.
No, technically it is a host name but not a hostname, cf. e.g. http://www.gnu.org/savannah-checkouts/gnu/libc/manual/html_node/Host-Identification.html > There are plenty of multi-homed machines in the world that have different > initial components of their hostnames depending on domain name or network > interface. The running kernel only has one canonical hostname though. You're right of course, I misunderstood your original email. I've updated the manpage to reflect that nowadays most systems can cope with a FQDN in /etc/hostname, which wasn't the case years and years ago. It seems that a lot of people nowadays use FQDNs, so I made this claim to correctly say it's historical. Michael -- Michael Meskes Michael at Fam-Meskes dot De, Michael at Meskes dot (De|Com|Net|Org) Michael at BorussiaFan dot De, Meskes at (Debian|Postgresql) dot Org Jabber: michael.meskes at googlemail dot com VfL Borussia! Força Barça! Go SF 49ers! Use Debian GNU/Linux, PostgreSQL -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
