Package: hostname Version: 3.23 Severity: minor The -A / --all-fqdns description in the hostname(1) man page confuses users. For instance:
https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2022/04/msg00755.html It says "Displays all FQDNs of the machine." This should be something like: Displays the FQDNs associated with all configured network interfaces. And somewhere in the paragraph, add something like: Note that this may be different from the FQDN of the machine, provided by -f. Moreover, in the -f / --fqdn / --long description: See the warnings in section THE FQDN above und use hostname --all-fqdns instead wherever possible. This is a bad advice! On my laptop (which is on a local network at home), "hostname -A" just outputs a blank line. In a case like a local network, there is no point in having a reverse for network interfaces. On this other hand, "hostname -f" is typically useful to get the domain part of Message-IDs generated on the machine, for instance. -- System Information: Debian Release: bookworm/sid APT prefers unstable-debug APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable-security'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 5.17.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/12 CPU threads; PREEMPT) Kernel taint flags: TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE, TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE Locale: LANG=POSIX, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages hostname depends on: ii libc6 2.33-7 hostname recommends no packages. hostname suggests no packages. -- no debconf information -- Vincent Lefèvre <vinc...@vinc17.net> - Web: <https://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <https://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / AriC project (LIP, ENS-Lyon)
