From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add compile domain (was: Re: [PATCH] Well, Linus seems to like Lordi...)
Date: Thu, 25 May 2006 13:34:22 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <e554ce$q23$1@terminus.zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20060525201347.GA21926@csclub.uwaterloo.ca
Followup to: <20060525201347.GA21926@csclub.uwaterloo.ca>
By author: lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca (Lennart Sorensen)
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> And Debian too. I thought it was invalid to put the FQDN as your
> hostname. Also makes updating the domain for a network harder (if one
> would ever want to do so). Putting the FQDN as my hostname, makes
> hostname -f act very strange. I think a number of tools think doing it
> is wrong.
>
BSD practice has been to do it; SysV practice has been to not do it.
This probably has to do with the fact that a larger percentage of BSD
systems were connected to the Internet earlier on, being popular at
universities.
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-05-25 20:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-05-25 14:17 [PATCH] Well, Linus seems to like Lordi Kyle McMartin
2006-05-25 15:46 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-05-25 16:02 ` Steven Rostedt
2006-05-25 16:15 ` alan
2006-05-25 16:26 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-05-25 16:43 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-05-26 23:47 ` Folkert van Heusden
2006-05-27 7:05 ` Oliver Neukum
2006-05-25 16:37 ` [PATCH] Add compile domain (was: Re: [PATCH] Well, Linus seems to like Lordi...) Jan Engelhardt
2006-05-25 16:48 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-05-25 18:40 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-05-25 18:47 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-05-25 18:53 ` [PATCH] Add compile domain İsmail Dönmez
2006-05-25 18:59 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-05-25 19:00 ` İsmail Dönmez
2006-05-25 18:54 ` [PATCH] Add compile domain (was: Re: [PATCH] Well, Linus seems to like Lordi...) Alistair John Strachan
2006-05-25 19:02 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-05-25 21:14 ` [PATCH] Add compile domain Martin J. Bligh
2006-05-25 21:38 ` Alistair John Strachan
2006-05-25 22:12 ` Måns Rullgård
2006-05-25 21:43 ` Måns Rullgård
2006-05-25 19:06 ` [PATCH] Add compile domain (was: Re: [PATCH] Well, Linus seems to like Lordi...) Linus Torvalds
2006-05-25 20:29 ` Lennart Sorensen
2006-05-26 11:56 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-05-26 21:11 ` Christian Trefzer
2006-05-27 2:14 ` [PATCH] Add compile domain Bernd Eckenfels
2006-05-29 12:25 ` [PATCH] Add compile domain (was: Re: [PATCH] Well, Linus seems to like Lordi...) Gabor Gombas
2006-05-29 23:13 ` [PATCH] Add compile domain Bernd Eckenfels
2006-05-30 13:54 ` Gabor Gombas
2006-05-27 2:13 ` Bernd Eckenfels
2006-05-25 19:43 ` [PATCH] Add compile domain (was: Re: [PATCH] Well, Linus seems to like Lordi...) bjdouma
2006-05-25 20:13 ` Lennart Sorensen
2006-05-25 20:34 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2006-05-27 2:19 ` [PATCH] Add compile domain Bernd Eckenfels
2006-05-29 12:08 ` [PATCH] Add compile domain (was: Re: [PATCH] Well, Linus seems to like Lordi...) Gabor Gombas
2006-05-29 20:20 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-05-29 20:47 ` Joshua Hudson
2006-05-29 23:17 ` [PATCH] Add compile domain Bernd Eckenfels
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