On 22/05/14 15:10, Rowland Penny wrote:
> On 22/05/14 14:05, steve wrote:
>> On 22/05/14 14:50, John Hodrien wrote:
>>> On Thu, 22 May 2014, Rowland Penny wrote:
>>>
>>>> Not on Ubuntu it isn't ;-)
>>>
>>> I'd argue that Ubuntu just has incorrect behaviour then.
>>>
>>> If you look at man hosts on an ubuntu machine (13.10), you'll see how
>>> they
>>> describe it, and the example they provide. The format described is:
>>>
>>> IP_address canonical_hostname [aliases...]
>>>
>>> The example is:
>>>
>>> 127.0.0.1 localhost
>>> 192.168.1.10
foo.mydomain.org foo
>>> 192.168.1.13
bar.mydomain.org bar
>>>
>>> That's the correct format, whether or not Ubuntu applies it.
>>>
>>> That said, the only machine I have with ubuntu defined a hosts file
>>> with:
>>>
>>> 127.0.1.1 short-ubuntu-13.10 short-ubuntu-13
>>>
>>> That, in a slightly unpleasant way, follows the way I'd do it.
>>>
>>> jh
>>>
>> How do you send the fqdn with dhcp then?
>>
>> we have:
>> 127.0.0.1 fqdn hostname localhost
>
> 127.0.0.1 is ipv4 for 'localhost' so try changing it to this:
>
> 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost
> 127.0.1.1 fqdn hostname
>
Yes, that's fine. But only with fqdn in /etc/hostname
This works for me with Linux Mint 15 aka Ubuntu 13.04, what version of
lubuntu are you using?
Rowland