[CentOS] Short or long hostname ?

Jonathan Billings billings at negate.org
Wed Apr 10 21:19:28 UTC 2019


On Apr 10, 2019, at 09:23, Simon Matter via CentOS <centos at centos.org> wrote:
> IMHO for those having proper DNS in place, the hostname should be set to
> the FQDN in whatever place it is supposed to be set. I quite feel there is
> something wrong if the only place where the FQDN is listed is the
> /etc/hosts file.

If you ever plan on using Kerberos, you want the host name to use FQDN, otherwise some krb5 stuff can break. 

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Jonathan Billings <billings at negate.org>




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