[Samba] 4.2.2 as AD with 2 DCs: database incoherency

Reindl Harald h.reindl at thelounge.net
Thu Jul 16 15:31:12 UTC 2015



Am 16.07.2015 um 17:18 schrieb Rowland Penny:
> On 16/07/15 13:27, Reindl Harald wrote:
>>
>> Am 16.07.2015 um 14:02 schrieb Rowland Penny:
>>> /etc/hosts should be:
>>>
>>> 127.0.0.1    localhost.localdomain    localhost
>>
>> uhm no - you want 127.0.0.1 normally resolved to localhost and hence
>> 127.0.0.1    localhost    localhost.localdomain
>
> Ah NO, only if you are using a brain dead OS like red-hat :-)
>
>  From 'man hosts'
>
> For each host a single line should be present with the following
> information:
>
>                IP_address canonical_hostname [aliases...]
>
> Optional aliases provide for name changes, alternate spellings, shorter
> hostnames,  or  generic  hostnames  (for  example, localhost)

you quote exactly what i said
gethostbyaddr will answer the canonical_hostname and not a random alias

the real name for 127.0.0.1 is always localhost and hence that should 
not be the alias, frankly nobody needs the localhost.localdomain at all

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