From owner-ssh@clinet.fi Tue Jul 23 22:37:16 1996 Received: from hauki.clinet.fi (root@hauki.clinet.fi [194.100.0.1]) by hutcs.cs.hut.fi (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id WAA08325; Tue, 23 Jul 1996 22:37:15 +0300 (EET DST) Received: (daemon@localhost) by hauki.clinet.fi (8.7.5/8.6.4) id WAA02558 for ssh-outgoing; Tue, 23 Jul 1996 22:11:36 +0300 (EET DST) Received: from ftp.ee.vill.edu (ftp.ee.vill.edu [153.104.63.21]) by hauki.clinet.fi (8.7.5/8.6.4) with SMTP id WAA02545 for ; Tue, 23 Jul 1996 22:11:26 +0300 (EET DST) Received: by ftp.ee.vill.edu (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id PAA17198; Tue, 23 Jul 1996 15:11:18 -0400 Date: Tue, 23 Jul 1996 15:11:18 -0400 From: perry@ftp.ee.vill.edu (Rick Perry) Message-Id: <199607231911.PAA17198@ftp.ee.vill.edu> To: ssh@clinet.fi Subject: Re: RhostsRSAAuthentication fails X-Newsreader: NN version 6.5.0 CURRENT #2 Sender: owner-ssh@clinet.fi Precedence: bulk Tim Trant wrote: >... >/etc/nsswitch.conf. If the relevant line is set to "hosts: files dns" then >only the hostname is returned (as that's what is in /etc/hosts), I think it would be better to have the FQDN in /etc/hosts, followed by an alias: 1.2.3.4 host.myorg.net host >... but then diskless machines (Jumpstart) receive >fully qualified names as their hostnames. Sounds good to me. I think that many things work out better if `hostname` is the fully qualified name. ...Rick perry@ece.vill.edu, http://www.ece.vill.edu/~perry [PGP] Dr. Rick Perry, ECE Department, Villanova University, Villanova, PA 19085 610-519-4969, fax: 610-519-4436, hm: 610-259-8734