> (Make sure you pick .dummy so as not to interfere with any other DNS.) > > In theory you could leave off .dummy, but then you risk hostname being > completed with the search domain in resolv.conf, which creates the > problems already mentioned with putting hostname.domain.com in > /etc/hosts. (I have not tested this at all!) I will probably just leave this decision to the application architects, with the recommendation that we should simply use DNS as intended...