Bug#284755: acknowledged by developer

[Andreas Metzler]

On 2004-12-08 Ivar Zarans <ivar@init.ee> wrote:
[...]
> My apologies, it appears to be bug (or misunderstanding) in hostname and
> /etc/hosts file. At some moment we added "gw" as alias to 127.0.0.1.
> If /etc/hosts has local host name (here "gw") as one of aliases for
> 127.0.0.1, then hostname gets confused.

> Examples:

> /etc/hosts: 127.0.0.1   localhost.localdomain   localhost   gw
> $ hostname --fqdn
> $ localhost.localdomain

The format of /etc/hosts is 
Ip-Address  canonical-name  alias1 alias2 ....

Therefore if you set your hostname to "gw" and hostname (or exim)
tries to find the associated FQDN it comes up with
localhost.localdomain.

> /etc/hosts: 127.0.0.1   localhost.localdomain   localhost   test
> $ hostname --fqdn
> $ gw.reisiekspert.ee
[...]

You could use
127.0.0.2 gw.reisiekspert.ee gw
or set the fully qualified domainname in /etc/hostname.
            hth, cu andreas
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