Re: mail confusion

From: Derek Martin (code_at_pizzashack.org)
Date: 10/31/05

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    On Mon, Oct 31, 2005 at 11:38:50PM +1030, Tim wrote:
    > On Sun, 2005-10-30 at 12:06 -0500, Derek Martin wrote:
    > > Red Hat has configured some of its software to use
    > > "localhost.localdomain" (which I always thought was brain-damaged), so
    > > you'll need that in there as well.
    >
    > I can see why they've done something *like* that, as there's some
    > networking things that will insist on there being at least one dot in
    > the name, but I would have done it differently.

    Hmm... can you provide an example? I've never seen such a beast that
    I'm aware of. And IMO you shouldn't... localhost is localhost -- it
    isn't in a domain; that's the whole point. The entire 127.0.0.0/8
    network refers to your local machine. I'm inclined to think that
    software which requires a domain is broken. 

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