Warner Losh writes:
> : Unless there are some really good reasons
> : not to (which there may be), I'd like to commit changes to -CURRENT's
> : /etc/default/rc.conf to change the default hostname to "localhost".
>
> We have localhost.com as one of our domains here in the Village. So
> long as this change doesn't generate traffic to us in any way, shape,
> or form, I'd say go for it. Sniff your network for traffic to/from
> 204.144.255.150 to see if it does or not.
>
> There have been bugs in the past that would cause this to be the
> case. There have also been bugs in the past where machines (not
> necessarily FreeBSD machines) whose hostname was foo.com (for all
> values of foo) would try to use localhost.com as the loopback
> address.
There is an RFC that specifies a "private use" top level domain,
analogous to 192.168.0.0/16, 10.0.0.0/8, etc.
The domain is ".local" so any default ending in ".local" should
not conflict.
-Archie
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