An odd DNS conundrum?

[John Abreau]

Don Levey wrote:

> Hmm... I would have expected the hostname to come up properl;y, then:
> 
> 	/u/dlevey> cat /etc/hosts
> 	# Do not remove the following line, or various programs
> 	# that require network functionality will fail.
> 	127.0.0.1       rialto.example.com rialto localhost.localdomain localhost
> 
> Since the FQDN is the first entry on the list.
>  -DOn

Maybe I was remembering something from Solaris, from back in the '90s.

I just grepped through /etc, and found the FQDN defined in
/etc/sysconfig/network:

     HOSTNAME=bart.us.zuken.com


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