2 DNS, one machine

Alexander Dalloz ad+lists at uni-x.org
Mon Nov 29 23:23:56 UTC 2004


Am Di, den 30.11.2004 schrieb John Summerfield um 0:14:

> On Tuesday 30 November 2004 01:08, Alexander Dalloz wrote:
> > "localhost" is no valid network hostname.
> 
> localhost is a perfectly valid host name and is _the standard_ namd for the 
> computer the program is running on.

localhost is valid for a standalone host. It will not be proper in a
networked environment. Therefor for example the ifup script will change
the hostname when it is set to localhost and the host is getting his IP
by a DHCP server.

> John

Alexander


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