I think you missed the point I was trying to convey. Anyway you want to try to flip it, you are still going against the grain with using a period in the hostname. Even libc it states what a hostname is and what a fqdn is, see below. So if libc defines a hostname like below, then facter will be the least of your issues down the road.
In DNS, the full host name is properly called the FQDN (Fully Qualified Domain Name) and consists of the hostname, then a period, then the domain name. The domain name itself usually has multiple components separated by periods. So for example, a system's hostname may be ‘chicken’ and its domain name might be ‘ai.mit.edu’, so its FQDN (which is its host name) is ‘chicken.ai.mit.edu’. http://www.gnu.org/s/hello/manual/libc/Host-Identification.html On Oct 3, 2011, at 6:59 PM, Doug Balmer wrote: > about. In fact, I think if you were to use periods it would confuse > DNS resolve because it follows the same convention as stated in the > RFC. If I were external trying to look up host.server.domain.com, my > DNS would try to look for a nameserver for server.domain.com. You > would still be forced to use a new zone file for server.domain.com. > > man resolv.conf > See options ndots > > If I have a host with FQDN foo.bar.example.com and I have "options > ndots:2\nsearch example.com" in /etc/resolv.conf then I can resolve "foo.bar". > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Puppet Users" group. > To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en.
