Re: [PATCH RESEND] uts: Set default hostname to "localhost", rather than "(none)"

Linus Torvalds
2011-04-11T15:18:35Z

On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 8:02 AM, Stephen Hemminger
<shemminger@vyatta.com> wrote:
>
> It makes sense but this behavior has existed so long in Linux
> that some distro might actually be depending on it.

Yes. Also, quite frankly, I do _not_ think that "localhost" is in any
way a more correct hostname.

I'd rather have an obviously invalid hostname for a machine that
hasn't been set up correctly than one that might work by random
chance.

Linus