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Re: fixing Sys::Hostname
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From:
Tom Christiansen
Date:
February 8, 2000 07:50
Subject:
Re: fixing Sys::Hostname
Message ID:
29314.950024992@chthon
>> % grep localhost /etc/hosts
>> 127.0.0.1 localhost
>Which is exactly my point ;-) there is no alias there, just the one name
>and that makes 'localhost' the official name of the address.
But I've never heard of "localhost" ever being anything but
"127.1" as an address. It's extremely expected.
>If I do gethostbyname('localhost') on such a machine I get 'localhost'
>back. But I would "like" to get back "pluto" or "pluto.tiuk.ti.com"
>Thus my entry "should" be :
>127.0.0.1 pluto.tiuk.ti.com pluto localhost
>and yours "should" be :
>127.0.0.1 chthon.perl.com chthon localhost
I think not.
--tom
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