On 2013-09-08 18:16:16 +0200, Michael Meskes wrote: > On Sun, Sep 08, 2013 at 02:47:56PM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > Because of the issues mentioned above, the sentence "See the warnings > > in section THE FQDN above, and avoid using this option; use hostname > > --all-fqdns instead." for --fqdn must be removed. > > That I don't understand.
Well, "See the warnings in section THE FQDN above" is OK. But "avoid using this option; use hostname --all-fqdns instead." is not. If one wants the (standard) FQDN of the machine, then "hostname --fqdn" is the way to do, not "hostname --all-fqdns", which may return local names or nothing. > > But /etc/hosts isn't part of the DNS (see the hosts(5) man page). > > This why dig, which is a "DNS lookup utility", doesn't use it. > > So, if you take /etc/hosts entries into account and say > > "reverse *DNS* entry", you are lying. > > Relax! Either we're talking about improving software or we insult each other. > If you prefer the latter please look for a different place as I will not play > this game. I'm not insulting you, I just explain that the man page says something wrong. I think that replacing "reverse DNS entry" by "reverse IP entry" would be OK (the term "reverse IP" is commonly used, and here it is more generic than just DNS). -- Vincent Lefèvre <vinc...@vinc17.net> - Web: <http://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <http://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / AriC project (LIP, ENS-Lyon) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org