Re: localhost.localdomain

[Daniel Nilsson <dlist nlsn nu>]

This code includes a call to self.lookupHostname(), this function totally
trashes /etc/resolv.conf in the anaconda-ramdisk and it will only work i
hostname i set to FQDN.

I have posted this to anaconda-devel-list, and think its a bug.

/// D

On Wed, 14 May 2003, Jason Kohles wrote:

> Which means the machine was not able to resolve the ip address you entered,
> this is the code that writes /etc/hosts during install:
>
>         # /etc/hosts
>         f = open(instPath + "/etc/hosts", "w")
>         localline = "127.0.0.1\t\t"
>
>         log("self.hostname = %s", self.hostname)
>
>     ip = self.lookupHostname()
>
>     # If the hostname is not resolvable, tie it to 127.0.0.1
>     if not ip and self.hostname != "localhost.localdomain":
>         localline = localline + self.hostname + " "
>         l = string.split(self.hostname, ".")
>         if len(l) > 1:
>         localline = localline + l[0] + " "
>
>     localline = localline + "localhost.localdomain localhost\n"
>         f.write("# Do not remove the following line, or various programs\n")
>         f.write("# that require network functionality will fail.\n")
>         f.write(localline)
>
>     if ip:
>         f.write("%s\t\t%s\n" % (ip, self.hostname))
>
> If the hostname you entered was not resolvable to an ip address, then it
> will get associated with the localhost address in /etc/hosts.
>
>