Linda Walsh wrote:
Patrick Shanahan wrote:
* David C. Rankin <drankinatty@suddenlinkmail.com> [07-18-14 18:22]:
Are any of you working on networks where this matters? The last configuration where six machines have the same hostname in the same
Since I first came upon /etc/hosts, I was told I was supposed to put the short name as the 1st name of the first IP on my first ethernet port.
I.e. The short names in your /etc/hosts really should be first on the line unless you want the resolver to return the long name...
I mean, how would it know which was the real name?
I don't think what you have in /etc/<filename>
oops ^^^^ /etc/{hostname,HOSTNAME}
makes any difference to what the hostname command returns, but with all the changes, it might contact systemd for proper resolution and all bets are off then. ;-)
I haven't seen HOSTNAME anywhere except SuSE. As for the flags to hostname, don't remember that it had such flags when I first encountered hostname (~1989@sun)
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