Messages in this thread | | | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Date | Mon, 11 Apr 2011 08:12:40 -0700 | Subject | Re: [PATCH RESEND] uts: Set default hostname to "localhost", rather than "(none)" |
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On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 8:02 AM, Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com> wrote: > > It makes sense but this behavior has existed so long in Linux > that some distro might actually be depending on it.
Yes. Also, quite frankly, I do _not_ think that "localhost" is in any way a more correct hostname.
I'd rather have an obviously invalid hostname for a machine that hasn't been set up correctly than one that might work by random chance.
Linus
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