On 2009-12-30 15:33:05 -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > Better correct myself here. POSIX provides a way for apps to query the > canonical host name, but DOES NOT REQUIRE IT TO BE A FQDN. > > So, it provided the notion of a "special name", the canonical host name. > > In practice, it has to be a FQDN, but that's due to bad usage by > applications, not a POSIX (or SuSv3) requirement.
One problem is that it seems to be the only way to get the FQDN of the host. FYI, I use the FQDN as a way to identify the hosts (and a FQDN is more meaningful and probably more stable than an arbitrary UUID). But I don't know any software that tries to resolve the FQDN, except broken MTAs that reject mail if they can't resolve the FQDN, despite the fact that the client is on a private network. -- Vincent Lefèvre <vinc...@vinc17.net> - Web: <http://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <http://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / Arénaire project (LIP, ENS-Lyon) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
