[arch-general] Confusion About /etc/hosts File

[Adrian C.]

On Fri, 22 Jan 2010, Carlos Williams wrote:

> I have never understood Arch's approach to properly setting a FQDN on
> a server. According to the Wiki...and I will quote:

There are no guarantees for the wiki, you should never expect some. 
There are a lot of "experts" out there today...

> The above gives me the correct output when I run the 'hostname' 
> command = 'mail' but when I run the 'hostname -f' command, I get 
> localhost.localdomain.

# Localhost
127.0.0.1       localhost.localdomain  localhost

# Network
10.1.1.200      mail.iamghost.com      mail
10.1.1.201      hostname.iamghost.com  hostname www
10.1.1....


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