From: quale@spock.cs.wisc.edu (Doug Quale) Subject: Re: Net-2 set up Date: 29 Jun 1993 05:45:58 GMT
In article <1993Jun28.175545.16381@nessie.mcc.ac.uk> zlsiial@uts.mcc.ac.uk (A. V. Le Blanc) writes:
While it is true that different interfaces may have the same IP address, it
is also the case that different interfaces must have different IP addresses;
thus, for example, machines which have two ethernet cards or the equivalent
may not be able to use the same address for both. In any case, I agree that
the 'hostname' command has no business trying to look up the IP address,
which was the original point.
Right, hostname shouldn't have anything to do with bind. I appreciate
Fred's work on net-2 more than I can say, but his `hostname -S' hack is
a total loss. I recommend *not* installing his hostname (or deinstalling
it, if it's already too late). With Linux network configuration becoming
so similar to BSD, there's no point in a gratuitous incompatibility that
simply causes confusion and is ill-motivated in any case.