Messages in this thread | | | From | Kyle Moffett <> | Subject | Re: [BK] disconnected operation | Date | Wed, 29 Dec 2004 00:16:24 -0500 |
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On Dec 28, 2004, at 09:33, Ricky Beam wrote: > 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*
So what would happen to somebody who put their BK files on a portable drive and carried it from home to work. That's a perfectly reasonable thing to do, both for security and for speed reasons, but it would appear to cause problems.
Cheers, Kyle Moffett
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