Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 28 Dec 2004 09:33:54 -0500 (EST) | From | Ricky Beam <> | Subject | Re: [BK] disconnected operation |
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On Sun, 26 Dec 2004, Martin Dalecki wrote: >A hostname simply isn't a fixed attribute of a host anymore.
It is on properly setup and maintained machines.
The problem are all those people writing programs that think they are doing the world a favor by screwing with the hostname and various other settings for us... there's no reason for dhcp to change my hostname. At least on linux, no dhcp implementation touches /etc/hosts. (Solaris has screwed up the hosts file for years.)
These are the same machines that don't have FQDN's as the first name per entry in /etc/hosts (which pisses off many incarnations of glibc.) *grin*
--Ricky
PS: When you're off-line, /etc/resolv.conf shouldn't have any nameservers listed. They aren't going to be connectable.
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