[PATCH] fix smartness og name_to_fqdn() code

Gerald (Jerry) Carter jerry at samba.org
Thu Aug 31 01:33:21 GMT 2006


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Andrew Bartlett wrote:

> I get the feeling this is one of those areas where 
> people will disagree on best practice, but my point
> is that if we bug out on that, there are a lot of
> hosts we will bug out on.

Perhaps.  But so far so good.    We started enforcing
this for 'net ads join' in 3.0.23.

> Perhaps a better fallback might be <hostname>.<ads domain>?

I'm pretty adamant about this one.  'hostname -f' has to
return a valid fqdn.  The guesswork we previously did was
just broken and confusing.




cheers, jerry
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