On Wed, 30 Dec 2009 21:28:52 +0100, Vincent Bernat wrote: > OoO Pendant le temps de midi du mercredi 30 décembre 2009, vers 12:03, > Gabor Gombas <gomb...@sztaki.hu> disait : > >>> If this is a real question, put: >>> 127.0.1.1 fqdn nodename >>> >>> This seems a very acceptable way to give a FQDN to your laptop >>> without relying on network. hostname -f and programs using a >>> similar inner working will be able to get the right result. > >> Adding meaningless configuration to work around programs that are >> broken by design does not seem like a good solution. > > There are a lot of programs requiring some kind of FQDN (for example > because they implement a protocol requiring it). How should they get it? > I have never seen a more universal that to get node name with uname(), > then use gethostbyname(). Please, provide better way.
The admin should supply it in the program's configuration, since only the admin is able to know the correct value. -- Sam Morris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
