Re: CVS commit: src/lib/libc/gen

[Bernd Ernesti <netbsd%lists.veego.de@localhost>]

On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 03:20:04PM +0000, Christos Zoulas wrote:
> 
> 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.

And what did change now?

Bernd