Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (824 mails)

[Katarina Machalkova <kmachalkova@xxxxxxx>]

Hi James,

> In the "/etc/hosts" file on opensuse 10.2, I have the
> "Full-Qualified-Hostname" on my machine in like this:
> # IP-Address  Full-Qualified-Hostname  Short-Hostname
> 127.0.0.2  my_hostname.my_dns  my_hostname
>
> This was not the case with 10.3 after I installed it - so I tried to add it
> (for reasons I won't go into here).
>
> I can add a  Full-Qualified-Hostname (in the form of the line above)
> manually via the command line but I can't using yast2 by running  "DNS and
> Hostname" with the "Change Hostname via DHCP" and "Write to Hostname to
> /etc/hosts" options selected.

Please file a bug and assign it to me. As there is a new feature in 10.3 
("Enable defining different hostname for each static IP address"), the way 
how hostnames are written to /etc/hosts has been changed. It seems that I've 
moved around more code than it was necessary :(
Cheers

B.
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