[PATCH] fix smartness og name_to_fqdn() code

Gerald (Jerry) Carter jerry at samba.org
Wed Aug 30 23:36:58 GMT 2006


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Andrew,

> I'm not entirely sure what this is doing.  Unfortunately, many sites
> (anyone using Fedora and presumably RHEL) will end up with:
> 
> # Do not remove the following line, or various programs
> # that require network functionality will fail.
> 127.0.0.1       localhost.localdomain   localhost       piglett
> 
> by default.

This is a broken /etc/hosts IMO. 'net ads join' will not work
any more with out a validly configured fqdn.   We have to
have a valid fqdn to set the dNSHostName attribute value.




cheers, jerry
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