On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 09:55, Michael T. Dean <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mtdean@thirdcontact.com">mtdean@thirdcontact.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
This is why we generally try to use the in-database information to find hosts, rather than just assume that every network has name resolution properly configured.<br></blockquote><div><br>Many (I daresay most), don't have local resolution at all, so the need is certainly there.<br>
<br>However, I hope we can be sure not to cause problems for those that do properly set up their networks, and for whom the infrastructure should be relied on and used as 100% authoritative in these matters.<br><br>For example, by necessity, I use the "hostname" key to identify different groups of settings for different purposes. This always troubles me, but it's simply how it's done, apparently, to have named groups of settings in MythTV for different purposes. I haven't encountered a place where that misnomer breaks anything, but I worry. And it seems to me that this is where it could likely surface.<br>
<br>Thoughts?<br>Eric<br></div></div>