mail confusion

[Tim]

On Sun, 2005-10-30 at 12:06 -0500, Derek Martin wrote:
> Red Hat has configured some of its software to use
> "localhost.localdomain" (which I always thought was brain-damaged), so
> you'll need that in there as well.

I can see why they've done something *like* that, as there's some
networking things that will insist on there being at least one dot in
the name, but I would have done it differently.

e.g. machinename.localhost

That would have used a name set aside (localhost) as a domain name that
won't be used on the internet, satisfied the need for a dot in the name,
made a sensible domain name structure for local networks, and doesn't
prevent "localhost" from being used for 127.0.0.1.  ;-\

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