[7991] in testers
Re: odd problem with domain resolution on Athena 10
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alex T Prengel)
Fri Apr 3 17:06:35 2009
Message-Id: <200904032103.n33L3AqH015042@dit.mit.edu>
To: Anders Kaseorg <andersk@mit.edu>
cc: alexp@mit.edu, testers@mit.edu, debathena@mit.edu
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 03 Apr 2009 16:46:11 EDT."
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Date: Fri, 03 Apr 2009 17:03:09 -0400
From: Alex T Prengel <alexp@MIT.EDU>
>> 127.0.1.1 zippy zippy.mit.edu
>> is denied, but
>> 127.0.1.1 zippy.mit.edu
>> is allowed.
>This probably happens because `hostname -i` will be 127.0.1.1 in the
>former case, but 18.142.4.128 in the latter case. So this is another
>manefestation of the known problem with 127.0.1.1.
Thanks for the information; we really need to solve the problem though; do
we do that by making sure all hosts on those lines are fully qualified?
Fundamentally whose responsibility is it to fix this- "we should edit
our hosts files", or "the vendors should be doing something different
that will work with non-fully qualified hosts", or "Ubuntu should fix this"?
Even if we decided on 2. or 3. or both, neither may be willing to do anything
about it in a reasonable time frame so we may be stuck with 1.
Alex
