Re: nss_myhostname as default in Fedora

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On 3.2.2016 16:34, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Wed, Jan 27, 2016 at 11:57:37PM +0100, Jan Pokorný wrote:
>> attempt on settle this one down: http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6761
> 
> rfc6761 is a useful reference, but it doesn't really solve this
> discussion one way or another.
> It's concerned with names to be "carved off a sub-tree of the DNS
> namespace in which the modified name treatment rules apply", but
> single label names are already special anyway.

Well, all special names are specified in RFC 6761 and associated registry.

What RFC says that single-label names are 'special'?
In what sense 'special'?
How do you differentiate arbitrary 'single-label' from TLD in DNS?

Answers to these questions need backing from standards because all parties
doing name resolution need to do it consistently.

Petr Spacek  @  Red Hat

>> (also filed https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=975856)
> This is one of the problems that myhostname solves.
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