Should dhclient put an entry in /etc/hosts?

[Robert Marcano]

On Fri, 2004-02-13 at 15:01, Steve Bergman wrote:
> My cable ISP is having problems today and DNS requests are quick slow. 
> I notice that it is taking longer than usual to log in and a ridiculous
> amount of time to bring up a gnome-terminal window.  A little
> investigation shows that it is indeed the DNS lookup on my own host name
> that is slowing things down so much.  It seems like something as local
> as a terminal window should not be dependent on an external DNS
> request.  Shouldn't dhclient add the assigned hostname and IP to
> /etc/hosts automatically?

My internet provider assigns to my machine a hostname and it is not
registered in their DNS server, so I modified the "network" service
script in order to always run "hostname localhost" at the end of the
"start" section. I am sure that there are better solutions , but i
needed a fast fix ;-)

> 
> -Steve