Subject: Re: forcing hostname as fqdn
To: Hubert Feyrer <hubert@feyrer.de>
From: Perry E. Metzger <perry@piermont.com>
List: source-changes
Date: 05/30/2006 19:12:32
Hubert Feyrer <hubert@feyrer.de> writes:
> On Tue, 30 May 2006, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
>> BTW (this is a general note to everyone) perhaps we should rig the rc
>> scripts to "force" hostname to be an fqdn, which would eliminate that
>> possible configuration mistake for postfix users. Then there really
>> would be very little the naive user would have to worry about.
>
> What about those people that run NetBSD on private networks w/o DNS?

It won't harm them to pick a fake FQDN, or we could let them have a
variable that disables the "requirement" for an FQDN.

Perry