Hi Faidon, thanks for spotting this and the very helpful bugreport, including the README diff. New package uploaded.
Greetings, Joachim Am Dienstag, den 17.01.2012, 16:04 +0200 schrieb Faidon Liambotis: > Package: libnss-myhostname > Version: 0.3-3 > Severity: normal > > It seems that version 0.3 of libnss-myhostname changed its behavior and > introduced an important feature: the module now first returns all locally > configured public IP addresses and only if none are found it fallbacks to > 127.0.0.2 (or, in Debian, 127.0.1.1). > > The package's long description should be updated to include that; I'm > using "normal" as the severity and not minor, since this is a quite > important change and may fool users into thinking that this need of > theirs is not covered by the package. Your opinion may vary :) > > FWIW, the diff from upstream's README reads: > - gethostname(2). A lot of software relies on that the local host name is > - resolvable via DNS to an IPv4 or IPv6 address. When using dynamic > - hostnames this is usually achieved by patching /etc/hosts which however > - is suboptimal since it requires a writable /etc file system and is > - fragile because the file might also be edited by the administrator. > - nss-myhostname simply returns the IPv4 address 127.0.0.2 (wich is on > - the local loopback) and the IPv6 address ::1 (which is the local host) > - for whatever system hostname is configured locally. Patching > - /etc/hostname is thus no longer necessary. > + gethostname(2). Various software relies on an always resolvable local > + host name. When using dynamic hostnames this is usually achieved by > + patching /etc/hosts at the same time as changing the host name. This > + however is not ideal since it requires a writable /etc file system and > + is fragile because the file might be edited by the administrator at the > + same time. nss-myhostname simply returns all locally configure public > + IP addresses, or -- if none are configured -- the IPv4 address > + 127.0.0.2 (wich is on the local loopback) and the IPv6 address ::1 > + (which is the local host) for whatever system hostname is configured > + locally. Patching /etc/hosts is thus no longer necessary. > > Regards, > Faidon > > > -- Joachim "nomeata" Breitner Debian Developer nome...@debian.org | ICQ# 74513189 | GPG-Keyid: 4743206C JID: nome...@joachim-breitner.de | http://people.debian.org/~nomeata
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