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| author | David R. Hedges <omegadrh@users.noreply.github.com> | 2016-02-18 21:31:38 -0600 |
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| committer | Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek@in.waw.pl> | 2016-04-04 13:28:57 -0400 |
| commit | 63003524cb7c27b50583cc4d90b5d81af5f7a7f6 (patch) | |
| tree | 1c2923d32a48f3db1997a4ba38e450b1e976a26a /man/nss-myhostname.xml | |
| parent | 48ddca5f3559c02f06cd03006eb11c6bab1a53e6 (diff) | |
*.localdomain != localhost
".localdomain" is not a reserved suffix (or prefix). I'm not aware of any
product expecting *.localdomain to resolve to localhost, however I am aware of
at least one product that defaults to ".localdomain" as its DNS suffix provided
via DHCP (pfSense). This leads to unexpected results when attempting to access
a host that's offline (or a host that's online, when nsswitch.conf is
[mis-]configured to have myhostname ahead of DNS).
Operate on:
localhost (and localhost.)
*.localhost (and *.localhost.)
localhost.localdomain (and localhost.localdomain.)
*.localhost.localdomain (and *.localhost.localdomain.)
We should not cover:
*.localdomain (nor *.localdomain.)
localdomain (nor localdomain.)
Diffstat (limited to 'man/nss-myhostname.xml')
| -rw-r--r-- | man/nss-myhostname.xml | 7 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/man/nss-myhostname.xml b/man/nss-myhostname.xml index 251bdecbad..e339e6b44e 100644 --- a/man/nss-myhostname.xml +++ b/man/nss-myhostname.xml @@ -71,9 +71,10 @@ is on the local loopback) and the IPv6 address ::1 (which is the local host).</para></listitem> - <listitem><para>The hostname <literal>localhost</literal> (as well as any hostname ending in - <literal>.localhost</literal>, <literal>.localdomain</literal> or equal to <literal>localdomain</literal>) is - resolved to the IP addresses 127.0.0.1 and ::1.</para></listitem> + <listitem><para>The hostnames <literal>localhost</literal> and + <literal>localhost.localdomain</literal> (as well as any hostname + ending in <literal>.localhost</literal> or <literal>.localhost.localdomain</literal>) + are resolved to the IP addresses 127.0.0.1 and ::1.</para></listitem> <listitem><para>The hostname <literal>gateway</literal> is resolved to all current default routing gateway addresses, |