Hi, On 07/10/12 00:24, Eelco Dolstra 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. I've pushed this to the NixOS repo on GitHub now. Please let me know if this causes any problems. P.S. I do know that it won't work for people who have nscd disabled. Without nscd, programs need to have all active NSS modules in their $LD_LIBRARY_PATH. Going through nscd gets rid of that problem (since only nscd has to be able to find them). -- Eelco Dolstra | LogicBlox, Inc. | http://nixos.org/~eelco/ _______________________________________________ nix-dev mailing list nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev
