On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 01:41:52PM +0200, Jan Stary wrote: > Installed yesterday's current/i386, using dhcpd and pxeboot > from another machine. After the installation, I noticed > that the address that was assigned to me during the install > via DHCP was written into /etc/hosts. Is that intended? > Should an arbitrary dhcp-assigned address be written into > /etc/hosts to stay there? Should that be mentioned in afterboot? > > The user might want to just use DHCP during the install, > and only during afterboot, while setting everything up, > decide on a fixed address and put that into hostname.if > - but the arbitrary dhcp-assigned address will still be > in /etc/hosts, possbily conflicting. > > Jan
Aha! To quote the commit message to /usr/src/distrib/miniroot/install.sub from 2009: Sat Mar 14 14:23:05 2009 UTC (4 years, 1 month ago) by krw Branches: MAIN Diff to: previous 1.448: preferred, coloured Changes since revision 1.448: +11 -6 lines There should only be one ::1 and one 127.0.0.1 entry in the hosts file. And 'localhost' don't need no stinkin' domain names. Insert line(s) with the address(es) of last interface defined instead of duplicate ::1 and 127.0.0.1 entries, Thus dhcp configured interfaces may eventually drift away from the value in hosts file. Much discussed just before tree lock. Time to see what happens. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- So what happens is that four years later somebody notices. :-) Your points are valid. I no longer recall the discussions that took place at the time, and am open to any new discussion. .... Ken
