Package i586-libnss-myhostname: Information
Binary package: i586-libnss-myhostname
Version: 201-alt1.M70P.1.M70C.2
Architecture: x86_64-i586
Build time: Jan 10, 2019, 01:00 AM
Category: System/Libraries
Report package bugLicense: LGPLv2.1+
Summary: glibc plugin for local system host name resolution
Description:
[This package was automatically repackaged from i586.] nss-myhostname is a plugin for the GNU Name Service Switch (NSS) functionality of the GNU C Library (glibc) providing host name resolution for the locally configured system hostname as returned by gethostname(2). Various software relies on an always resolvable local host name. When using dynamic hostnames this is usually achieved by patching /etc/hosts at the same time as changing the host name. This however is not ideal since it requires a writable /etc file system and is fragile because the file might be edited by the administrator at the same time. nss-myhostname simply returns all locally configure public IP addresses, or -- if none are configured -- the IPv4 address 127.0.0.2 (wich is on the local loopback) and the IPv6 address ::1 (which is the local host) for whatever system hostname is configured locally. Patching /etc/hosts is thus no longer necessary. It is necessary to change "hosts" in /etc/nsswitch.conf to hosts: files myhostname
Maintainer: Mikhail Efremov
List of contributors:
Mikhail Efremov
Anton V. Boyarshinov
Sergey V Turchin
Alexey Shabalin
Vitaly Kuznetsov
Mikhail Efremov
Anton V. Boyarshinov
Sergey V Turchin
Alexey Shabalin
Vitaly Kuznetsov
Last changed
Jan. 8, 2019 Mikhail Efremov 201-alt1.M70P.1.M70C.2
- journald: set a limit on the number of fields once more. - journald: set a limit on the number of fields (1k) (fixes: CVE-2018-16865).
Oct. 30, 2013 Anton V. Boyarshinov 201-alt1.M70P.1.M70C.1
- rebuild for c7
June 13, 2013 Sergey V Turchin 201-alt1.M70P.1
- turn off tmp.mount by default (ALT#29066)