[Nix-dev] /etc/hosts

[Lluís Batlle i Rossell]

On Sun, Nov 27, 2011 at 01:15:56PM +0100, Eelco Dolstra wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On 11/25/2011 07:47 PM, Peter Simons wrote:
> 
> >   >  Author: viric
> >   >  Date: Wed Nov  9 21:02:01 2011
> >   >  New Revision: 30362
> >   >  URL: https://nixos.org/websvn/nix/?rev=30362&sc=1
> >   >
> >   >  Log:
> >   >  Adding the hostname.domain and localhost.domain to hosts, if possible.
> >
> > this patch generates broken entries in /etc/hosts if networking.hostName
> > is a fully qualified domain name (as it is the case on several systems I
> > administrate). Would it be possible to append the domain name only if
> > hostName does not contain a '.' already?
> 
> In fact, "localhost.<domain>" looks very weird.  Why would that ever be 
> needed?  There shouldn't be a "localhost" in whatever your domain is 
> (unless your DNS server says so).

I think it's something related to postfix, domains, relaying from localhost, etc.
I forgot the details. :)