On Wed, 09.01.08 17:36, G.Wolfe Woodbury (ggw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) wrote: > >> What happens in practice, though, is that things that expect network > >> services to be running will do DNS lookups, hanging for minutes at at > >> time when there is no response. > > > > Looks like a good way to identify bugs to me... the DNS hang needs > > fixed, not worked around. > > One major help would be for Fedora to _not_ mangle the localhost line in > /etc/hosts. This has casued me several headaches until I learned to > remove the local realname from the default localhost line. > > Sure, its not technically incorrect, but its not nice when you've got > static addresses on a LAN. Although this is totally off-topic: I still think the proper fix is something like this: http://0pointer.de/lennart/projects/nss-myhostname/ http://0pointer.de/lennart/projects/nss-myhostname/README.txt I wrote that a while back. Maybe someone wants to dust this off and get it into Fedora and activated by default? This saved me a couple of times on embedded boxes, where each of the devices used a different hostname and I had to guarantee that the hostname stayed resolvable in all cases, with a ro root directory. Lennart -- Lennart Poettering Red Hat, Inc. lennart [at] poettering [dot] net ICQ# 11060553 http://0pointer.net/lennart/ GnuPG 0x1A015CC4 -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
