Re: Contents of /etc/hosts

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi!

John Darrington <address@hidden> skribis:

> So ... my recommendations:
>
> 1. We change /etc/hosts to read
>
>
>  127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost 
>  ::1       localhost.localdomain localhost
>
>  127.0.0.2 gambrinus

It’s not very useful to have “localhost.localdomain”, is it?  Also,
shouldn’t we keep the same address for both names?

Like:

  127.0.0.1 localhost
  ::1       localhost
  127.0.0.1 gambrinus
  ::1       gambrinus

Or am I missing something?

> 2. We put some checks in guix system to ensure that the host-name field does 
> not
>  exceed 63 bytes (not characters) and that it conforms to the format of 
> RFC1034

Sure, makes sense.

> Any objections if I commit a patch to gnu/system.scm ??

Send it first.  :-)

Thanks,
Ludo’.