Subject: install/6955: FQ hostname should be better supported by sysinst
To: None <gnats-bugs@gnats.netbsd.org>
From: None <Havard.Eidnes@runit.sintef.no>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 02/07/1999 00:49:17
>Number: 6955
>Category: install
>Synopsis: FQ hostname should be better supported by sysinst
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: medium
>Responsible: gnats-admin (GNATS administrator)
>State: open
>Class: sw-bug
>Submitter-Id: net
>Arrival-Date: Sat Feb 6 15:50:01 1999
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Havard Eidnes
>Organization:
RUNIT AS
>Release: NetBSD-current 19990131
>Environment:
System: NetBSD vader.runit.sintef.no 1.3I NetBSD 1.3I (VADER) #0: Sat Jan 9 18:53:46 MET 1999 he@hugin.runit.sintef.no:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/VADER i386
>Description:
I prefer to use a fully qualified DNS name for hostname on
NetBSD. Sysinst doesn't support this particularly well, in
that it will put "fqdn.domain" as the first entry in
/etc/hosts.
>How-To-Repeat:
Perform installation by giving a fully qualified DNS domain
name as host name, and the "domain" part of the FQDN when
prompted for the "domain" part.
>Fix:
Sysinst ought to detect that the given domain is an exact
suffix of the given hostname and in that case not append the
domain.
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted: