Messages in this thread | | | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Add compile domain (was: Re: [PATCH] Well, Linus seems to like Lordi...) | Date | Thu, 25 May 2006 13:34:22 -0700 (PDT) |
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Followup to: <20060525201347.GA21926@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> By author: lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca (Lennart Sorensen) In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > And Debian too. I thought it was invalid to put the FQDN as your > hostname. Also makes updating the domain for a network harder (if one > would ever want to do so). Putting the FQDN as my hostname, makes > hostname -f act very strange. I think a number of tools think doing it > is wrong. >
BSD practice has been to do it; SysV practice has been to not do it. This probably has to do with the fact that a larger percentage of BSD systems were connected to the Internet earlier on, being popular at universities.
-hpa
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