https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=386621 User pbaudis@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=386621#c2 --- Comment #2 from Petr Baudis 2008-05-05 04:02:46 MST --- The point is that having hostname resolving to localnet address in /etc/hosts is now regarded as ugly hack and we'd like to get rid of it. (Well, I'm personally not sure if this is the best approach but there's nothing harmful about it either.) Still, why is hostname -s even _calling_ resolver? It doesn't for me on 10.3 and I can see no reason why should it. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=386621 User werner@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=386621#c4 --- Comment #4 from Dr. Werner Fink 2008-05-05 04:18:35 MST --- Beside the called resolver from `/bin/hostname -s' the bash does use the variable HOSTNAME which is the full qualified domain name of the node. That may also provide a second timeout problem as the bash uses gethostname(2). -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=386621 User lnussel@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=386621#c6 Ludwig Nussel changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEEDINFO |NEW Info Provider|lnussel@novell.com | --- Comment #6 from Ludwig Nussel 2008-05-05 05:11:26 MST --- The intention of this bug report is to get rid of a useless DNS roundtrip. It caught my attention due to the mentioned other bug report but is independent of that. HOST=${HOSTNAME%%.*} instead of that hostname -s call should suffice. This is what /bin/hostname -s does for comparison: gethostname(hname, sizeof(hname)); .. if (!(hp = gethostbyname(hname))) { herror(program_name); exit(1); } .. if (!(p = strchr(hp->h_name, '.')) && (c == 'd')) return; .. switch (c) { .. case 's': if (p != NULL) *p = '\0'; printf("%s\n", hp->h_name); break; ie it tries to resolve the own hostname and then remove anything after the first dot. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=386621 User lnussel@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=386621#c8 --- Comment #8 from Ludwig Nussel 2008-05-05 06:08:15 MST --- No idea. It makes a difference if your hostname is actually the CNAME of another hostname. I don't know whether or not that is a useful configuration :-) Anyways, I still don't think /etc/profile should call hostname -s -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=386621 User lnussel@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=386621#c10 Ludwig Nussel changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEEDINFO |NEW Info Provider|lnussel@novell.com | --- Comment #10 from Ludwig Nussel 2008-05-05 06:34:12 MST --- Nothing is wrong with that. It just keeps secret that -s causes a dns lookup. RedHat has therefore added a patch to make that clear: http://cvs.fedoraproject.org/viewcvs/rpms/net-tools/devel/net-tools-1.60-hostname_man.patch?rev=1.2&view=auto -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=386621 User werner@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=386621#c12 Dr. Werner Fink changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |RESOLVED Resolution| |FIXED --- Comment #12 from Dr. Werner Fink 2008-05-05 07:28:01 MST --- Use now `/bin/uname -n' -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.