Not necessarily (about the order being important). On both Dapper and Edgy (as fresh installs) I have (for example):
/etc/hosts 127.0.0.1 localhost 70.91.79.100 mailout01.controlledmail.com mailout01 # The following lines are desirable for IPv6 capable hosts ::1 ip6-localhost ip6-loopback fe00::0 ip6-localnet ff00::0 ip6-mcastprefix ff02::1 ip6-allnodes ff02::2 ip6-allrouters ff02::3 ip6-allhosts $ hostname -f mailout01.controlledmail.com >From the problematic box mentioned in my previous comment (Dapper upgraded to Edgy) I have: /etc/hosts 127.0.0.1 localhost 72.81.252.19 mailout00 # The following lines are desirable for IPv6 capable hosts ::1 ip6-localhost ip6-loopback fe00::0 ip6-localnet ff00::0 ip6-mcastprefix ff02::1 ip6-allnodes ff02::2 ip6-allrouters ff02::3 ip6-allhosts $ hostname -f mailout00 If I change /etc/hosts to add the fqdn to it, I get: $ hostname -f mailout00.controlledmail.com The basic problem that I think this bug is about is that /etc/hosts is not populated correctly by the installer. I suspect if you take marvin out of the 127.0.0.1 entry, you will get the correct result. The current installer does not appear to add it. -- hostname -f does not return a proper FQDN https://launchpad.net/bugs/8980 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
