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To use the FQDN in /etc/hostname or not?

Newsgroups:  gmane.linux.debian.user
Date:        Sun, 06 Mar 2005 12:04:07 +0100

> Does /etc/hostname use the fully qualified domain name?
>
> a: www.example.com
> b: www

The recommended way is #2. The canonical host name for the machine is determined by /etc/hosts.

# Primary IP address    # Canonical host name     # aliases
130.28.1.99             www.example.com           www

Thomas Hood

To use the FQDN in /etc/hostname or not?

> The recommended way is #2...

it should really be done in the dns files itself so that one doesn't need to (re)define it n-times for n-machines and have mis-matches when people change etc/hosts and dont tell nobody and people wonder why innocent-joe's pc work and whacky-bozo's pc fails

use of /etc/hosts should be discouraged unless you are the only one to change it and have just a few boxes to mess round with and do not want to mess around with the whacky dns file formats

Alvin Oga