[Hostname-devel] Bug#626292: Bug#626292: man page claims that /etc/hostname should not contain fqdn

[Michael Meskes]

On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 07:35:57PM +0000, Clint Adams wrote:
> A FQDN _is_ a hostname.

No, technically it is a host name but not a hostname, cf. e.g.
http://www.gnu.org/savannah-checkouts/gnu/libc/manual/html_node/Host-Identification.html

> There are plenty of multi-homed machines in the world that have different
> initial components of their hostnames depending on domain name or network
> interface.  The running kernel only has one canonical hostname though.

You're right of course, I misunderstood your original email. I've updated the
manpage to reflect that nowadays most systems can cope with a FQDN in
/etc/hostname, which wasn't the case years and years ago. It seems that a lot
of people nowadays use FQDNs, so I made this claim to correctly say it's
historical.

Michael

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