https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=659201
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=659201#c2
Dr. Werner Fink changed:
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--- Comment #2 from Dr. Werner Fink 2010-12-17 10:19:42 UTC ---
This is IMHO the traditional way how to handle the hostname. The normal
name(s) reported by hostname(1) should be without the full qualified
domain name. Otherwise we run into trouble with very long domain names
(like www.itap.physik.uni-stuttgart.de) as many tools are limited to 32
characters (inluding ASCII 0) for the hostname.
Next point is that many users even to not know the difference between
the DNS domain name(s) of a host and the YP/NIS domain name(s) of the
same host. This is exlpained in the manual page hostname(1) and also
some further notes in the manual page hostname(7).
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