From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
To: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Cc: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>,
David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, "Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@hallyn.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH RESEND] uts: Set default hostname to "localhost", rather than "(none)"
Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2011 08:12:40 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <BANLkTinVGTOAsxG1CiJO1mSGRxBSNP5P4Q@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110411080254.403d3166@nehalam>
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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-04-11 15:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-04-11 5:01 [PATCH RESEND] uts: Set default hostname to "localhost", rather than "(none)" Josh Triplett
2011-04-11 12:39 ` Serge E. Hallyn
2011-04-11 15:02 ` Stephen Hemminger
2011-04-11 15:12 ` Linus Torvalds [this message]
2011-04-11 18:53 ` Josh Triplett
2011-04-12 2:47 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
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