On 22/05/14 14:06, Stephen Gallagher wrote:
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On 05/22/2014 08:55 AM, Rowland Penny wrote:
> On 22/05/14 13:50, 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.
> Thats all very well for a machine with a fixed ip but what about
> DHCP ?
>
Well, once they adopt systemd, they'll get to start using
hosts: files dns myhostname
OK, 'files dns' I understand but 'myhostname' ? I think that means that
DHCP will store the machines identity in a file somewhere, is this
correct and if so where ?
Rowland
This properly populates gethostby*() with the appropriate values from
DHCP.
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