From: Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@iskon.hr>
Subject: Re: Recognize FQDN
Date: 11 Dec 1999 21:55:05 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <9t9iu2542qe.fsf@mraz.iskon.hr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE's message of "11 Dec 1999 20:40:20 +0100"
Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann) writes:
> Gnus now looks to see if (system-name) evals to a string containing
> at least one dot, and if so, it assumes that this is a FQDN.
That's the way it's always been done. Many programs assume that when
hostname contains a dot, it means it's FQDN. Emacs itself does that.
> But it seems that many people have machines where the string is
> "localhost.localdomain" or "foo.bar" (or, in one case,
> "egon.matrix").
Isn't this broken?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1999-12-11 20:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-12-11 19:40 Kai Großjohann
1999-12-11 20:55 ` Hrvoje Niksic [this message]
1999-12-11 21:44 ` Kai Großjohann
1999-12-11 22:19 ` Hrvoje Niksic
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