Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ncar!boulder!grunwald From: grunwald@foobar.colorado.edu (Dirk Grunwald) Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix Subject: Re: Use Domain In Hostname Or Not? Message-ID: <17014@boulder.Colorado.EDU> Date: 15 Feb 90 21:57:31 GMT References: <4940@itivax.iti.org> <2929@decuac.DEC.COM> <22554@mimsy.umd.edu> Sender: news@boulder.Colorado.EDU Reply-To: grunwald@foobar.colorado.edu Organization: University of Colorado at Boulder Lines: 23 In-reply-to: chris@mimsy.umd.edu's message of 15 Feb 90 15:11:23 GMT One thing to worry about arised here at CU. the `local convention' is to use simple host name, not FQHN. My DECstation DNS wanted host name entries in .rhosts to be the FQHN version; the local suns (using static host tables) want `the hostname'. Thus, my .rhosts file has foobar.Colorado.EDU grunwald foobar grunwald anchor.Colorado.EDU grunwald anchor grunwald to allow it to be shared between /etc/hosts and DNS groking clients. If the local convention is FQHN, then this would not be needed, and I'd just use the FQHN. Oh well. Dirk Grunwald -- Univ. of Colorado at Boulder (grunwald@foobar.colorado.edu) (grunwald@boulder.colorado.edu)