On Sun, 11 Oct 2015 13:22:37 -0600 Glenn English <g...@slsware.net> wrote:
> >On Oct 11, 2015, at 12:37 PM, Brian <a...@cityscape.co.uk> wrote: > >> Your expectations are too high. > >Don't agree. This is software is intended to run server(s) on the Internet >(for me) and other important networks (for enterprise admins). For those >applications, it needs to work for at least the trivial software. > >'hostname -f' isn't rocket science -- it's just a small lookup. I suspect it >goes to ifconfig for the IP then in hosts for the FQDN that matches the IP, >or, apparently, resolv.conf and hostname. No major problem either way. It >could easily be done with a short shell script (maybe it is, I haven't looked). > >> "Oops" conveys nothing. Which is probably why you didn't expand on it >> when replying to David Wright. > >That's exactly what I was trying to say. A next to meaningless error message. >"Couldn't find in /etc/hosts, any IP given by ifconfig: <IP(s)>.", might be a >little more useful. > I am still learning. I can't help asking why you would not be using something like dnsmasq instead of /etc/hosts on a server? Isn't it more reliable? -- Charlie Kravetz Linux Registered User Number 425914 [http://linuxcounter.net/user/425914.html] Never let anyone steal your DREAM. [http://keepingdreams.com]
