Hi, Den 2012-10-07 06:24:02 skrev Eelco Dolstra <eelco.dols...@logicblox.com>:
> Hi, > > On 05/10/12 13:11, Rickard Nilsson wrote: > >> Is there some particular motivation behind the /etc/hosts generation? >> Why >> should the hostname always be mapped to 127.0.0.1? I think it is wrong, >> simply. > > The reason is that some software assumes that the hostname resolves to a > valid > IP address. However, a better solution is to use nss-myhostname [1], > which I'm > currently testing. It makes the hostname resolve to the IP addresses of > your > network interfaces, or ::1 / 127.0.0.2 as a fallback. > > [1] http://0pointer.de/lennart/projects/nss-myhostname/ nss-myhostname sounds like a good idea. I just wonder what happens when you have several network links configured, and want your hostname to resolve to one of those IPs. The documentation for nss-myhostname says "nss-myhostname simply returns all locally configure public IP addresses". I'm not sure what would happen in the nfsd case, would rpc-nfsd bind to all local IPs (which would basically be the same as 0.0.0.0), or would it pick the first one returned by nss-myhostname? / Rickard _______________________________________________ nix-dev mailing list nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev
