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