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Re: Hostname questions
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- Subject: Re: Hostname questions
- From: "A.Sajjad Zaidi" <sajjad@example.com>
- Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2001 13:52:09 +0900
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Jean-Christian Imbeault wrote: > >Some do, but that's not really proper. They should get it by > >calling /bin/hostname or something like calling gethostbyaddr(3) > >on their own socket. > > That's what I've been waiting for someone to say!! So now I know that > /etc/hosts doesn't need and shouldn't need an entry for my machine. I think its still a good idea to have an entry in /etc/hosts in case the DNS servers are inaccessable. 41 53 5A
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