[CentOS] Short or long hostname ?

Nux! nux at li.nux.ro
Wed Apr 10 09:42:53 UTC 2019


How I do it ( and always done it):

hostnamectl set-hostname foobar.localdomain

echo 127.0.0.1 foobar.localdomain foobar >> /etc/hosts
echo ::1 foobar.localdomain foobar >> /etc/hosts

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----- Original Message -----
> From: "Nicolas Kovacs" <info at microlinux.fr>
> To: "CentOS mailing list" <centos at centos.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, 10 April, 2019 08:21:11
> Subject: [CentOS] Short or long hostname ?

> Hi,
> 
> For the last ten years or so, I've defined the short hostname in
> /etc/hostname and the FQDN in /etc/hosts. Now I wanted to double-check
> this information, which eventually led me to this page:
> 
>  *
> https://serverfault.com/questions/331936/setting-the-hostname-fqdn-or-short-name
> 
> Now I admit I'm even more confused than before.
> 
> Is there some reliable piece of information on this subject for CentOS ?
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Niki
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