Re: Networking and /etc/hosts

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On Mon, 2006-04-24 at 11:59 -0700, patrickd@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> I was looking around through network.py and noticed that only resolveable 
> hostnames get their own ip address lines.  Is there any reason why it does 
> this?

Think about cases like laptops where you don't always have networking
available

> I realize it's probably a good thing to only put valid hostnames in 
> /etc/hosts, but why not warn on the network page when a user has put in an 
> invalid hostname?

You could be doing an install from CD and thus have no way of knowing if
a hostname is "invalid" or not

Jeremy


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