-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 01/22/2016 01:06 PM, Florian Weimer wrote: > On 01/21/2016 11:18 PM, Orion Poplawski wrote: > >> PS - There is some other discussion around "mymachines" which seems much >> more problematic. I'd like to just focus on myhostname for now. The >> glibc maintainer has indicated that he wants to wait for mymachines to be >> resolved, but it's almost two months now and I don't see that being >> resolved soon. > > I still have philosophical objects to myhostname as well. I find it odd > that at one end, we struggle with DNS name space hijacking, but on another > end, we do basically the same thing: > > <https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/2026> > > The order in nsswitch.conf does not matter (and neither does any non-DNS > name resolution mechanism) because if we end up having software which > expects that “gateway” resolves to the IP address of the default gateway, > we still have an interoperability problem. And if “gateway” is never > intended for name resolution, why synthesize the name at all? For what it's worth, nss_myhostname is extremely valuable even without "gateway". Having the the machine's hostname automatically resolving even to DHCP-assigned addresses solves a lot of issues, including some extremely common ones related to FreeIPA installation. So if nothing else, I'd really like to see this feature back to being installed by default. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iEYEARECAAYFAlamMT4ACgkQeiVVYja6o6NuYwCgsByDXdtc2Ok1zwtdgSXOTN01 /RsAnRdCAjMDFD6Vch3kN4Bdo/B7IC9z =BOZh -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
