Tim: >> I don't see why that's wrong, there were plenty of things that >> discover their hostname by doing a reverse look-up of their IP. And >> he demonstrated several releases that worked exactly that way. Samuel Sieb: > What are these plenty of things? This is the first that I know of. > And the question still remains. Is the OS looking up the hostname > at runtime or was it always the installer setting it at install time? He listed several, and even showed a demo. I listed one Apache, and I seem to recall Jabber and Dovecot did the same thing (they don't ask your OS what it's host and domain name are, it checks via DNS lookups). -- uname -rsvp Linux 3.10.0-1160.53.1.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Fri Jan 14 13:59:45 UTC 2022 x86_64 Boilerplate: All unexpected mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted. I will only get to see the messages that are posted to the mailing list. _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
