I've always thought that the correct format of /etc/hosts was
1.1.1.1 fully.qualified.name shortname alias
We're upgrading our core software and some of the vendors utilities are failing as they require the short name to be switched with the FQDN.
This breaks dnsdomainname
(returns nothing) and also hostname -f
(returns the short name).
We've gone back to the vendor who want a detailed response on why they should change their utilities.
I'm looking for reasons why they are wrong. All I have so far is that it breaks standard utilities but I need more than this.
Ideas?
Thanks
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