[Hostname-devel] hostname -s behaviour should be consistent with other unixes (and with documentation)

Michael Meskes meskes at debian.org
Sat Oct 24 18:11:12 UTC 2009


[Sorry for the late reply, I've been on a short vacation without any network access.]

> > As you can see in
> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=319981
> > the reporter of the bug claims that
> > hostname -s
> > on a host with a hostname that does not resolve in the DNS
> > behaves in one way on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (and on Debian as I tried)
> > and in the other way on FreeBSD/OpenBSD/AIX/MacOsX.

I'm currently trying to get someone to test this on Solaris. The reporter is
right about MacOsX and probably all other BSD systems, but I'd like to see what
the other Unixes do.

Michael
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