Package libnss-myhostname: Information
Binary package: libnss-myhostname
Version: 239-alt6
Architecture: x86_64
Build time: Apr 16, 2020, 02:08 PM in the task #249710
Source package: systemd
Category: System/Libraries
Report package bugDownload: libnss-myhostname-239-alt6.x86_64.rpm
License: 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 Gordeev
Vladimir D. Seleznev
Alexey Shabalin
Andrey Bychkov
Anton Midyukov
Mikhail Efremov
Ivan Zakharyaschev
Paul Wolneykien
Anton Farygin
Eugene Prokopiev
Sergey V Turchin
Gleb Fotengauer-Malinovskiy
Michael Shigorin
Vitaly Kuznetsov
Mikhail Gordeev
Vladimir D. Seleznev
Alexey Shabalin
Andrey Bychkov
Anton Midyukov
Mikhail Efremov
Ivan Zakharyaschev
Paul Wolneykien
Anton Farygin
Eugene Prokopiev
Sergey V Turchin
Gleb Fotengauer-Malinovskiy
Michael Shigorin
Vitaly Kuznetsov
Last changed
April 10, 2020 Mikhail Gordeev 1:239-alt6
- add resolve files, located at /run to the list of tracked by altlinux-libresolv files
Feb. 21, 2020 Vladimir D. Seleznev 1:239-alt5
- security update (fixes CVE-2019-20386, CVE-2019-3842, CVE-2019-3843, CVE-2019-3844 and CVE-2020-1712)
Oct. 14, 2019 Alexey Shabalin 1:239-alt4
- merge with v239-stable ef677436aa203c24816021dd698b57f219f0ff64 - add symlink /usr/bin/systemctl -> /bin/systemctl for compat with other distros - merge bash and zsh completion packages to utils and udev