From: Linus Torvalds Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2005 22:43:54 GMT Subject: Re: [GIT PATCH] I2C and W1 bugfixes for 2.6.12-rc2 Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <1113949783.2129.4.camel@nosferatu.lan> On Wed, 20 Apr 2005, Martin Schlemmer wrote: > > Correct me if I am wrong, but the right way to do this is to set the > hostname to just that - the hostname, and add 'domain foo.com' > to /etc/resolv.conf. I'll correct you. The fact is, that's not what people do. Not me, not kernel.org, not _any_ of the machines I've got access to. They put the fully qualified name in the hostname, and just do "search foo.com" in /etc/resolv.conf. So clearly, expecting that people work the way you claim is being extremely optimistic. I'm sure some people do that too, but I suspect I'm in the majority. Both Fedora Core and YellowDog act the way I described, not the way you do.. Linus