On Sun, 2021-04-18 at 12:41 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Sunday 18 April 2021 10:05:36 Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > On Sat, Apr 17, 2021 at 11:31:20PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > On Saturday 17 April 2021 21:47:20 Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > > getent hosts 3dprint > > > > > > nothing is returned. > > > > For the record, I cannot reproduce this on bullseye. > > > > unicorn:~$ grep hosts /etc/nsswitch.conf > > hosts: files mdns4_minimal [NOTFOUND=return] dns > > unicorn:~$ grep 3d /etc/hosts > > 10.0.69.3 3dprint.local 3dprint > > unicorn:~$ getent hosts 3dprint > > 10.0.69.3 3dprint.local 3dprint > > > > I'm not saying that *all* programs will handle this hostname > > correctly, but bullseye's version of getent(1) does. Assuming of > > course that you have corrected your broken configuration, which had > > "3d" instead of "3dprint" in the hosts file. > > That was in the alias position of the hosts files. And while is now been > removed, it did work as an alias to dddprint. > > My best guess, and admittedly a WAG, certainly not a SWAG, is that ssh > and its ilk have been around for yonks. It has not been updated to allow > what the lastest rfc now does.
That 'latest' RFC [1] mentioned in another mail is dated October 1989. [1] https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1123 -- Tixy
