[Nut-upsuser] upsd/upsc, LISTEN and hostname resolution in master/slave

[Spike]

Hi,

I've been setting up a few Eatons 1500 USB in master/slave mode and run
into what I'm thinking is a hostname resolution problem.

Basically, to avoid hardcoding ips, I'd love to be able to add a LISTEN on
the lan's ip which has hostname, let's say, server1.local .

If I set up upsd.conf such as LISTEN server1.local 3493 what I end up with
is upsd listening on 127.0.0.1 . I'm guessing it gets this value from
/etc/hosts which overrides server1.local dns resolution.

So basically if I want it to listen on anything other than localhost I need
to hardcode an ip in upsd.conf or add a line to /etc/hosts, which is not
quite convenient if the computer gets its ip from dhcp.

What's more, it seems that upsc does the same thing, so if I have a line
such as:
MONITOR eaton at server1.local ... that will fail if I specified the external
ip. However this will succeed from the slave, because there's no
server1.local in /etc/hosts I'm guessing so the name resolves to the same
ip in the LISTEN.

Is this really the desired behavior? I can certainly work with it, but it
seems it'd be nice if it could work with dns resolution (at least client
side, the LISTEN statement I guess it's ok), but maybe I'm missing some
good reason why this would cause other issues.

best,

Spike
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