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diff --git a/doc/README.html.in b/doc/README.html.in index 4721c4dc24..f78618298c 100644 --- a/doc/README.html.in +++ b/doc/README.html.in @@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ <body> <h1><a name="top">nss-myhostname @PACKAGE_VERSION@</a></h1> -<p><i>Copyright 2005-2008 Lennart Poettering <@PACKAGE_BUGREPORT@></i></p> +<p><i>Copyright 2005-2011 Lennart Poettering <@PACKAGE_BUGREPORT@></i></p> <ul class="toc"> <li><a href="#license">License</a></li> @@ -38,6 +38,13 @@ Lesser General Public License for more details.</p> <h2><a name="news">News</a></h2> +<div class="news-date">Mon May 9 2011: </div> + +<p class="news-text"><a href="@PACKAGE_URL@nss-myhostname-0.3.tar.gz">Version +0.3</a> released. Changes include: Always return locally configured IP +addresses first, use 127.0.0.2/::1 only as fallback if no addresses +are configured.</p> + <div class="news-date">Mon Oct 27 2008: </div> <p class="news-text"><a @@ -55,16 +62,18 @@ released. Initial release.</p> <p><tt>nss-myhostname</tt> is a plugin for the GNU Name Service Switch (NSS) functionality of the GNU C Library (<tt>glibc</tt>) providing host name resolution for the locally configured system hostname as -returned by <tt>gethostname(2)</tt>. A lot of software relies on that the -local host name is resolvable via DNS to an IPv4 or IPv6 address. When -using dynamic hostnames this is usually achieved by -patching <tt>/etc/hosts</tt> which however is suboptimal since it -requires a writable <tt>/etc</tt> file system and is fragile because -the file might also be edited by the -administrator. <tt>nss-myhostname</tt> simply returns the IPv4 +returned by <tt>gethostname(2)</tt>. Various software relies on an +always resolvable local host name. When using dynamic hostnames this +is usually achieved by patching <tt>/etc/hosts</tt> at the same time +as changing the host name. This however is not ideal since it requires +a writable <tt>/etc</tt> file system and is fragile because the file +might be edited by the administrator at the same +time. <tt>nss-myhostname</tt> simply returns all locally configure +public IP addresses, or -- if none are configured -- the IPv4 address <tt>127.0.0.2</tt> (wich is on the local loopback) and the IPv6 address <tt>::1</tt> (which is the local host) for whatever -system hostname is configured locally. Patching <tt>/etc/hostname</tt> is thus no longer necessary.</p> +system hostname is configured locally. Patching <tt>/etc/hosts</tt> +is thus no longer necessary.</p> <h2><a name="status">Current Status</a></h2> @@ -123,11 +132,10 @@ precedence.</p> <p><tt>nss-myhostname</tt> uses NSS interfaces that are specific to modern <tt>glibc</tt>'s.</p> -<p><tt>nss-myhostname</tt> was developed and tested on Fedora 10 -from October 2008, it should work on most other Linux -distributions since it uses GNU autoconf and -GNU libtool for source code configuration and shared library -management.</p> +<p><tt>nss-myhostname</tt> was developed and tested on Fedora 15 from +May 2011, it should work on most other Linux distributions since it +uses GNU autoconf and GNU libtool for source code configuration and +shared library management.</p> <h2><a name="installation">Installation</a></h2> @@ -152,7 +160,7 @@ compilation and <tt>make install</tt> (as root) for installation of <pre>git clone git://git.0pointer.de/nss-myhostname</pre> <hr/> -<address class="grey">Lennart Poettering <@PACKAGE_BUGREPORT@>, October 2008</address> +<address class="grey">Lennart Poettering <@PACKAGE_BUGREPORT@>, May 2011</address> </body> </html> |