-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 05/22/2014 08:55 AM, Rowland Penny wrote: > On 22/05/14 13:50, John Hodrien wrote: >> On Thu, 22 May 2014, Rowland Penny wrote: >> >>> Not on Ubuntu it isn't ;-) >> >> I'd argue that Ubuntu just has incorrect behaviour then. >> >> If you look at man hosts on an ubuntu machine (13.10), you'll see >> how they describe it, and the example they provide. The format >> described is: >> >> IP_address canonical_hostname [aliases...] >> >> The example is: >> >> 127.0.0.1 localhost 192.168.1.10 foo.mydomain.org foo >> 192.168.1.13 bar.mydomain.org bar >> >> That's the correct format, whether or not Ubuntu applies it. > > Thats all very well for a machine with a fixed ip but what about > DHCP ? >
Well, once they adopt systemd, they'll get to start using hosts: files dns myhostname This properly populates gethostby*() with the appropriate values from DHCP. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iEYEARECAAYFAlN99kMACgkQeiVVYja6o6M0RgCgjIrcRxplNbuEP07EPvPy9ucu FF4An1xeW/58DI+8WEG+J9lcrLx7bDEV =4BYY -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ sssd-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/sssd-users
