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Re: a little jessie whinage

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On Sun, 11 Oct 2015 14:02:20 -0600
Charlie Kravetz <cjk@teamcharliesangels.com> wrote:

> On Sun, 11 Oct 2015 13:22:37 -0600
> Glenn English <ghe@slsware.net> wrote:
> 
> >
> >On Oct 11, 2015, at 12:37 PM, Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> wrote:
> >
> >> Your expectations are too high. 
> >
> >Don't agree. This is software is intended to run server(s) on the
> >Internet (for me) and other important networks (for enterprise
> >admins). For those applications, it needs to work for at least the
> >trivial software.
> >
> >'hostname -f' isn't rocket science -- it's just a small lookup. I
> >suspect it goes to ifconfig for the IP then in hosts for the FQDN
> >that matches the IP, or, apparently, resolv.conf and hostname. No
> >major problem either way. It could easily be done with a short shell
> >script (maybe it is, I haven't looked).
> >
> >> "Oops" conveys nothing. Which is probably why you didn't expand on
> >> it when replying to David Wright.
> >
> >That's exactly what I was trying to say. A next to meaningless error
> >message. "Couldn't find in /etc/hosts, any IP given by ifconfig:
> ><IP(s)>.", might be a little more useful.
> >
> 
> I am still learning. I can't help asking why you would not be using
> something like dnsmasq instead of /etc/hosts on a server? Isn't it
> more reliable?
> 
> 

On a server, you would probably be using BIND, as the lighter DNS
software may cause obscure problems. I recall once using my home router
for DNS, until one day after a fairly tricky bit of email
troubleshooting, I discovered it wasn't returning *some* MX records...

If you're using BIND and dhcpd, it's not hard to link them to resolve
your local machines.

-- 
Joe

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a little jessie whinage Glenn English <ghe@slsware.net> - 2015-10-11 05:00 +0200
  Re: a little jessie whinage David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2015-10-11 07:30 +0200
    Re: a little jessie whinage Glenn English <ghe@slsware.net> - 2015-10-11 09:30 +0200
      Re: a little jessie whinage Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2015-10-11 20:40 +0200
        Re: a little jessie whinage Glenn English <ghe@slsware.net> - 2015-10-11 21:30 +0200
          Re: a little jessie whinage Glenn English <ghe@slsware.net> - 2015-10-11 22:30 +0200
          Re: a little jessie whinage Mart van de Wege <mvdwege@gmail.com> - 2015-10-11 22:30 +0200
          Re: a little jessie whinage Charlie Kravetz <cjk@teamcharliesangels.com> - 2015-10-11 23:00 +0200
            Re: a little jessie whinage Glenn English <ghe@slsware.net> - 2015-10-11 23:10 +0200
            Re: a little jessie whinage Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2015-10-11 23:20 +0200
          Re: a little jessie whinage Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2015-10-12 00:20 +0200
  Re: a little jessie whinage <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2015-10-11 12:20 +0200
    Re: a little jessie whinage tomas@tuxteam.de - 2015-10-11 13:20 +0200
    Re: a little jessie whinage Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2015-10-11 17:10 +0200
  Re: a little jessie whinage Mart van de Wege <mvdwege@gmail.com> - 2015-10-11 22:20 +0200
    Re: a little jessie whinage Glenn English <ghe@slsware.net> - 2015-10-11 22:30 +0200
      Re: a little jessie whinage Mart van de Wege <mvdwege@gmail.com> - 2015-10-11 23:30 +0200
      Re: a little jessie whinage Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> - 2015-10-12 00:00 +0200
      Re: a little jessie whinage David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2015-10-12 06:50 +0200
        Re: a little jessie whinage Glenn English <ghe@slsware.net> - 2015-10-12 09:40 +0200
          Re: a little jessie whinage Seeker <seeker5528@comcast.net> - 2015-10-13 04:00 +0200
            Re: a little jessie whinage Mart van de Wege <mvdwege@gmail.com> - 2015-10-13 10:40 +0200
            Re: a little jessie whinage Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2015-10-13 15:10 +0200

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