On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 9:53 PM, Leonid Isaev <lisaev@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, 23 Oct 2012 16:43:23 +0200 > Tom Gundersen <teg@xxxxxxx> wrote: > >> Hi guys, >> >> I just pushed a new filesystem package to testing with two minor changes: >> >> We now rely on nss-myhostname being installed, so we no longer have to >> instruct people to put their local hostname in /etc/hosts. >> The archlinux(7) manpage was updated to reflect that, as well as to >> refer to some features of systemd in testing which should make the >> basic setup more straight-forward (timezone and hostname config in >> particular). > > So, is it safe to remove /etc/hosts after updating the filesystem, or there > are some applications which still expect it?.. Thanks. For ipv4, I think applications using FQDN with "dnsdomainname", "hostname -f" will still need custom /etc/hosts. I doesn't find a way to provide (compatible with those softs) FQDN to nss-myhostname and systemd definition of hostname (understand without dots in /etc/hostname). For ipv6, despite a negative comment in code[1], reverse seems to get hostname and not localhost6. # getent hosts ::1 2a01:240:fe00:8205:223:14ff:fed2:9224 rwolf [1] http://git.0pointer.de/?p=nss-myhostname.git;a=blob;f=nss-myhostname.c;h=83180ad80532713dc6bb9ca2c23e21629568b026;hb=HEAD Cheers, -- Sébastien "Seblu" Luttringer https://www.seblu.net GPG: 0x2072D77A
