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On Thu, 21 Dec 2006 21:45:07 -0800 |
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Kevin O'Gorman wrote: |
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...[snip]... |
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> Oops. I should have known I could answer my own question with a |
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> little more digging. I now see that there's |
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> hostname |
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> hostname --fqdn |
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> dnsdomainname |
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> and they all work by looking in /etc/host.conf, and if (as is true |
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> here) that says |
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> to use the hosts file first, it looks for it in /etc/hosts, which has |
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> the fqdn. I seem to dimly recall that it actually looks for the first |
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> non-comment, but that |
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> cannot be quite right, because localhost comes first in my copy. |
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> Maybe it's the first |
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> routable IP number? |
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> I think this sub-problem is solved. I've commented my config files a |
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> bit more, so I |
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> won't make the same mistake again. |
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> ++ kevin |
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Now, I'm curious! On my system, I see the following: |
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dnsdomainname osagesoftware.com |
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hostname osage.osagesoftware.com |
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hostname --fqdn osage.osagesoftware.com |
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/etc/hosts contains: |
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192.168.1.10 osage.osagesoftware.com osage |
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"strace -feopen" shows that /etc/hosts is opened by "hostname --fqdn" |
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but not "hostname". |
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What have I got wrong? |
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Regards, |
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David |
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P.S. Greetings from one Kiewit alumni to another ... |
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