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Subject: Re: Contents of /etc/hosts
Date: Wed, 05 Oct 2016 22:17:14 +0200
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To: John Darrington <john@darrington.wattle.id.au>
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Hi!

John Darrington <john@darrington.wattle.id.au> skribis:

> So ... my recommendations:
>
> 1. We change /etc/hosts to read
>
>
>  127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost=20
>  ::1       localhost.localdomain localhost
>
>  127.0.0.2 gambrinus

It=E2=80=99s not very useful to have =E2=80=9Clocalhost.localdomain=E2=80=
=9D, is it?  Also,
shouldn=E2=80=99t we keep the same address for both names?

Like:

  127.0.0.1 localhost
  ::1       localhost
  127.0.0.1 gambrinus
  ::1       gambrinus

Or am I missing something?

> 2. We put some checks in guix system to ensure that the host-name field d=
oes not
>  exceed 63 bytes (not characters) and that it conforms to the format of R=
FC1034

Sure, makes sense.

> Any objections if I commit a patch to gnu/system.scm ??

Send it first.  :-)

Thanks,
Ludo=E2=80=99.