On 1/26/22 23:45, Tim via users wrote:
Tim:
>> I don't see why that's wrong, there were plenty of things that
>> discover their hostname by doing a reverse look-up of their IP. And
>> he demonstrated several releases that worked exactly that way.
Samuel Sieb:
> What are these plenty of things? This is the first that I know of.
> And the question still remains. Is the OS looking up the hostname
> at runtime or was it always the installer setting it at install time?
He listed several, and even showed a demo.
I listed one Apache, and I seem to recall Jabber and Dovecot did the
same thing (they don't ask your OS what it's host and domain name are,
it checks via DNS lookups).
That's a horrible idea! And it would fail most of the time.