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19 lines
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
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<!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd">
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<pkgmetadata>
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<herd>freedesktop</herd>
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<longdescription lang="en">
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nss-myhostname is a plugin for the GNU Name Service Switch (NSS) functionality
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of the GNU C Library (glibc) providing host name resolution for the locally
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configured system hostname as returned by gethostname(2). Various software
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relies on an always resolvable local host name. When using dynamic hostnames
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this is usually achieved by patching /etc/hosts at the same time as changing
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the host name. This however is not ideal since it requires a writable /etc
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file system and is fragile because the file might be edited by the
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administrator at the same time. nss-myhostname simply returns all locally
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configure public IP addresses, or -- if none are configured -- the IPv4
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address 127.0.0.2 (wich is on the local loopback) and the IPv6 address ::1
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(which is the local host) for whatever system hostname is configured locally.
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Patching /etc/hosts is thus no longer necessary.
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</longdescription>
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</pkgmetadata>
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