Re: Address 127.0.1.1

From	Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: Address 127.0.1.1
Date	2024-05-24 20:30 +0200
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On Fri, May 24, 2024 at 01:49:58PM -0400, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
> On Fri, May 24, 2024 at 1:46 PM Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> wrote:
> >
> > On Fri, May 24, 2024 at 01:40:38PM -0400, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
> > > On Fri, May 24, 2024 at 11:13 AM Paul M Foster <paulf@quillandmouse.com> wrote:
> > > > 192.168.254.30  yosemite.mars.lan   yosemite
> >
> > > 127.0.1.1 is traditionally used for the fully qualified domain name
> > > (fqdn). So I would expect to see 'yosemite.mars.lan', but not
> > > 'yosemite'.
> >
> > I don't know why you would expect that.  What purpose would that serve?
> 
> Sorry I was not clear. I would expect that because 127.0.1.1 is
> traditionally used for a fully qualified domain name, not a hostname.

What traditions are you referring to?

Here's Debian's documentation for this whole thing:

https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-reference/ch05.en.html#_the_hostname_resolution

Thread

Address 127.0.1.1 Paul M Foster <paulf@quillandmouse.com> - 2024-05-24 14:10 +0200
  Re: Address 127.0.1.1 Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2024-05-24 14:20 +0200
  Re: Address 127.0.1.1 Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2024-05-24 14:40 +0200
  Re: Address 127.0.1.1 Marco Moock <mm@dorfdsl.de> - 2024-05-24 16:50 +0200
    Re: Address 127.0.1.1 <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2024-05-24 17:20 +0200
      Re: Address 127.0.1.1 <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2024-05-24 17:30 +0200
      Re: Address 127.0.1.1 Marco Moock <mm@dorfdsl.de> - 2024-05-24 17:30 +0200
        Re: Address 127.0.1.1 Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2024-05-24 17:50 +0200
          Re: Address 127.0.1.1 Paul M Foster <paulf@quillandmouse.com> - 2024-05-24 18:20 +0200
          Re: Address 127.0.1.1 Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2024-05-24 18:50 +0200
            Re: Address 127.0.1.1 Paul M Foster <paulf@quillandmouse.com> - 2024-05-24 19:20 +0200
              Re: Address 127.0.1.1 Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net> - 2024-05-24 23:40 +0200
            Re: Address 127.0.1.1 Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2024-05-24 19:40 +0200
      Re: Address 127.0.1.1 Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2024-05-24 18:50 +0200
        Re: Address 127.0.1.1 <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2024-05-24 19:20 +0200
  Re: Address 127.0.1.1 Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2024-05-24 19:50 +0200
    Re: Address 127.0.1.1 Jeffrey Walton <noloader@gmail.com> - 2024-05-24 20:00 +0200
      Re: Address 127.0.1.1 Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2024-05-24 20:30 +0200
        Re: Address 127.0.1.1 debian-user@howorth.org.uk - 2024-05-24 23:30 +0200
  Re: Address 127.0.1.1 Jeffrey Walton <noloader@gmail.com> - 2024-05-24 19:50 +0200
    Re: Address 127.0.1.1 David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2024-05-24 19:50 +0200

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