[Nix-dev] [NixOS] 127.0.0.1 in /etc/hosts

[Eelco Dolstra]

Hi,

On 07/10/12 14:18, Rickard Nilsson wrote:

> nss-myhostname sounds like a good idea. I just wonder what happens when  
> you have several network links configured, and want your hostname to  
> resolve to one of those IPs.

That depends on the program I guess.  Usually programs use the first address
returned by gethostbyname() / getaddrinfo().

> The documentation for nss-myhostname says
> "nss-myhostname simply returns all locally configure public IP addresses".  
> I'm not sure what would happen in the nfsd case, would rpc-nfsd bind to  
> all local IPs (which would basically be the same as 0.0.0.0), or would it  
> pick the first one returned by nss-myhostname?

Dunno, but probably the latter.

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