Package libnss-myhostname: Information
Binary package: libnss-myhostname
Version: 233-alt0.M80C.3
Architecture: i586
Build time: Jan 10, 2019, 07:32 PM in the task #219165
Source package: systemd
Category: System/Libraries
Report package bugLicense: LGPLv2.1+
Summary: nss-myhostname provide hostname resolution for the locally configured system hostname
Description:
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: Alexey Shabalin
List of contributors:
Mikhail Efremov
Anton V. Boyarshinov
Alexey Shabalin
Eugene Prokopiev
Sergey V Turchin
Gleb Fotengauer-Malinovskiy
Ivan Zakharyaschev
Michael Shigorin
Vitaly Kuznetsov
Mikhail Efremov
Anton V. Boyarshinov
Alexey Shabalin
Eugene Prokopiev
Sergey V Turchin
Gleb Fotengauer-Malinovskiy
Ivan Zakharyaschev
Michael Shigorin
Vitaly Kuznetsov
Last changed
Jan. 10, 2019 Mikhail Efremov 1:233-alt0.M80C.3
- journald: set a limit on the number of fields once more. - Backported patches from upstream (fixes: CVE-2018-16864, CVE-2018-16865, CVE-2018-16866).
Sept. 28, 2017 Anton V. Boyarshinov 1:233-alt0.M80C.2
- Security (Fixes: CVE-2017-9217, CVE-2017-9445)
March 16, 2017 Anton V. Boyarshinov 1:233-alt0.M80C.1
- backport to c8