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

[Ben Scott]

On 1/30/06, Neil Joseph Schelly <neil at jenandneil.com> wrote:
> ... the FQDN hostname you enter during install is properly put
> in the hosts file with your "real" IP as opposed to the
> localhost one.

  Doesn't work for systems without a static connection (e.g., dynamic
IP clients, laptops that roam, etc).

> 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

  Doesn't work for systems with transient connections (e.g., dialup).

  I'm not trying to argue that Red Hat's choosen solution isn't
broken, just illustrate that I don't know of any solution that doesn't
break something for somebody.  Pick your posion.

-- Ben