Allegedly, on or about 16 November 2012, Reindl Harald sent: > i agree that it makes no sense if there is no useful domain but the > benefits for cases where you have one beats the overhead easily I've tended to find that it's easier to do things if you do have a domain name, even if you've faked up one just for your LAN. Much better to have one that you've created, than the overly long "localdomain" that Red Hat and Fedora favour. Certainly, in the past, I'd come across one or two things that flatly refused to accept me trying to use a single hostname, insisting on a domain name with some dots in it. -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -rsvp Linux 3.6.6-1.fc17.x86_64 #1 SMP Mon Nov 5 21:59:35 UTC 2012 x86_64 All mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted, there is no point trying to privately email me, I will only read messages posted to the public lists. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org