Re: [Libreoffice] [PATCH] Replace command domainname by getdomainname() on Unix

Francois Tigeot <ftigeot -AT- wolfpond.org>
Mon, 14 Nov 2011 08:12:20 +0100

On Sun, Nov 13, 2011 at 02:16:51PM +0100, Lionel Elie Mamane wrote:


AFAIK, a well-configured machine has /etc/hosts setup so that
gethostbyname(gothostname()) does not touch DNS, but is resolved
entirely from reading /etc/hosts. Doesn't the installer *by* *default*
set things up like that? At least, the Debian installer does.


/etc/hosts may also contain perfectly valid lines like this one:

  ::1        localhost localhost.my.domain

which don't help a bit.

LibreOffice is an office suite and has no business trying to get the domain
name IMHO.

This code should be removed and if it does something useful, that something
should be rewritten to not depend on network resources.

-- 
Francois Tigeot

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