Man, they'll try anything to hack your system...

[Neil Joseph Schelly]

On Monday 30 January 2006 11:52 am, Ben Scott wrote:
> On 1/29/06, Bill McGonigle <bill at bfccomputing.com> wrote:
> > I consider postfix to be working properly in this case and the fedora
> > core installer to be the misbehaver here.
>
>   Yah, that's been a long-time standard Red Hat behavior.  I've always
> corrected the /etc/hosts file soon after install.

Debian does the same thing in my experience.  I've often thought that it is 
pretty appropriate and that the FQDN hostname you enter during install is 
properly put in the hosts file with your "real" IP as opposed to the 
localhost one.

Personally, I think the right way to fix it is from the mail server 
perspective.  I don't think they should pick the name they'll report 
themselves as based on a localhost address, but based on the first 
non-localhost address they bind to
-Neil