On 01/21/2016 11:18 PM, Orion Poplawski wrote:
PS - There is some other discussion around "mymachines"
which seems much more
problematic. I'd like to just focus on myhostname for now. The glibc
maintainer has indicated that he wants to wait for mymachines to be resolved,
but it's almost two months now and I don't see that being resolved soon.
I still have philosophical objects to myhostname as well. I find it odd
that at one end, we struggle with DNS name space hijacking, but on
another end, we do basically the same thing:
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https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/2026>
The order in nsswitch.conf does not matter (and neither does any non-DNS
name resolution mechanism) because if we end up having software which
expects that “gateway” resolves to the IP address of the default
gateway, we still have an interoperability problem. And if “gateway” is
never intended for name resolution, why synthesize the name at all?
Florian