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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
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)
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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

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