CVS commit: src/lib/libc/gen

[Christos Zoulas <christos%netbsd.org@localhost>]

Module Name:    src
Committed By:   christos
Date:           Wed Dec 10 15:20:04 UTC 2008

Modified Files:
        src/lib/libc/gen: syslog.c

Log Message:
Martin says:

I had added a getaddrinfo()/getnameinfo() lookup to obtain an FQDN even
if gethostname() would return only the local part of the hostname.
I did not really consider that many systems do not have FQDNs and more
importantly that the calls introduce a high latency (timeout) when DNS
is not available.

On the other hand I do not (or no longer) think that using a non-FQDN is
such a big problem here. Those users/admins that do collect logs from
different hosts and want an FQDN should notice the problem quickly
enough and can easily fix it by correctly setting their hostname.


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cvs rdiff -r1.45 -r1.46 src/lib/libc/gen/syslog.c

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