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

Stephen Gallagher sgallagh at redhat.com
Thu May 22 13:06:12 UTC 2014


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On 05/22/2014 08:55 AM, Rowland Penny wrote:
> 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 ?
> 

Well, once they adopt systemd, they'll get to start using
hosts: files dns myhostname

This properly populates gethostby*() with the appropriate values from
DHCP.
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