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

Rowland Penny repenny241155 at gmail.com
Thu May 22 13:28:37 UTC 2014


On 22/05/14 14:06, Stephen Gallagher wrote:
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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

OK, 'files dns' I understand but 'myhostname' ? I think that means that 
DHCP will store the machines identity in a file somewhere, is this 
correct and if so where ?

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