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Diffstat (limited to 'sys-auth/nss-myhostname/metadata.xml')
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diff --git a/sys-auth/nss-myhostname/metadata.xml b/sys-auth/nss-myhostname/metadata.xml new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..1aba3db38f01 --- /dev/null +++ b/sys-auth/nss-myhostname/metadata.xml @@ -0,0 +1,19 @@ +<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> +<!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd"> +<pkgmetadata> +<herd>freedesktop</herd> +<longdescription lang="en"> +nss-myhostname is a plugin for the GNU Name Service Switch (NSS) functionality +of the GNU C Library (glibc) providing host name resolution for the locally +configured system hostname as returned by gethostname(2). Various software +relies on an always resolvable local host name. When using dynamic hostnames +this is usually achieved by patching /etc/hosts at the same time as changing +the host name. This however is not ideal since it requires a writable /etc +file system and is fragile because the file might be edited by the +administrator at the same time. nss-myhostname simply returns all locally +configure public IP addresses, or -- if none are configured -- the IPv4 +address 127.0.0.2 (wich is on the local loopback) and the IPv6 address ::1 +(which is the local host) for whatever system hostname is configured locally. +Patching /etc/hosts is thus no longer necessary. +</longdescription> +</pkgmetadata> |