[SSSD-users] 1.11.5 ddns failure on Ubuntu 14.04 [SOLVED]

Rowland Penny repenny241155 at gmail.com
Thu May 22 12:55:43 UTC 2014


On 22/05/14 13:50, John Hodrien wrote:
> On Thu, 22 May 2014, Rowland Penny wrote:
>
>> Not on Ubuntu it isn't ;-)
>
> I'd argue that Ubuntu just has incorrect behaviour then.
>
> If you look at man hosts on an ubuntu machine (13.10), you'll see how 
> they
> describe it, and the example they provide.  The format described is:
>
> IP_address canonical_hostname [aliases...]
>
> The example is:
>
> 127.0.0.1     localhost
> 192.168.1.10  foo.mydomain.org    foo
> 192.168.1.13  bar.mydomain.org    bar
>
> That's the correct format, whether or not Ubuntu applies it.

Thats all very well for a machine with a fixed ip but what about DHCP ?

>
> That said, the only machine I have with ubuntu defined a hosts file with:
>
> 127.0.1.1     short-ubuntu-13.10  short-ubuntu-13
>
> That, in a slightly unpleasant way, follows the way I'd do it.
>
> jh
>
Yes, that is what Ubuntu does out of the box, but without the domain 
name in /etc/hosts, hostname & hostname -f just returns the short-hostname.

Rowland


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