[wplug] Hostname behavior

[Brandon Kuczenski]

On Thu, 14 Sep 2006, Drew from Zhrodague wrote:

>> My computer is named 'plaza.'  It says so in its /etc/hostname file, which 
>> contains 'plaza\n'.  When I run 'hostname', 'plaza' is what's returned.
>> 
>> However, when I run 'hostname -f', I get 'localhost.localdomain', which 
>> seems like a misconfiguration.
>
> 	What's in your /etc/hosts and which distro?
>

I'm running Debian.  hosts looks like:



127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost plaza
192.168.0.x foo.301south.net foo
192.168.0.y bar.301south.net bar
192.168.0.15 plaza.301south.net plaza

# The following lines are desirable for IPv6 capable hosts
# (added automatically by netbase upgrade)

::1 ip6-localhost ip6-loopback
fe00::0 ip6-localnet
ff00::0 ip6-mcastprefix
ff02::1 ip6-allnodes
ff02::2 ip6-allrouters
ff02::3 ip6-allhosts
EOF

It was my understanding that the 127.0.0.1 line should always be 
localhost.localdomain, but I could be mistaken.

-Brandon