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authorLennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>2011-05-09 15:17:34 +0200
committerLennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>2011-05-09 15:17:34 +0200
commit87a477c74e2478e94e89e7026cf7207fcdc2dffc (patch)
treea2774a2e2a72f7a8217285c9a29b4729f644d64e
parentfe0fc11bacc3e00023e45b04b9ee788ed161c4b8 (diff)
build-sys: prepare releasev0.3
-rw-r--r--configure.ac2
-rw-r--r--doc/README.html.in38
2 files changed, 24 insertions, 16 deletions
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 6f4dfaf..38cd58f 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@
# <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
AC_PREREQ(2.62)
-AC_INIT([nss-myhostname],[0.2],[mzzlubfganzr (at) 0pointer (dot) de])
+AC_INIT([nss-myhostname],[0.3],[mzzlubfganzr (at) 0pointer (dot) de])
AC_CONFIG_SRCDIR([nss-myhostname.c])
AC_CONFIG_HEADERS([config.h])
AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR(m4)
diff --git a/doc/README.html.in b/doc/README.html.in
index 4721c4d..f786182 100644
--- a/doc/README.html.in
+++ b/doc/README.html.in
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
<body>
<h1><a name="top">nss-myhostname @PACKAGE_VERSION@</a></h1>
-<p><i>Copyright 2005-2008 Lennart Poettering &lt;@PACKAGE_BUGREPORT@&gt;</i></p>
+<p><i>Copyright 2005-2011 Lennart Poettering &lt;@PACKAGE_BUGREPORT@&gt;</i></p>
<ul class="toc">
<li><a href="#license">License</a></li>
@@ -38,6 +38,13 @@ Lesser General Public License for more details.</p>
<h2><a name="news">News</a></h2>
+<div class="news-date">Mon May 9 2011: </div>
+
+<p class="news-text"><a href="@PACKAGE_URL@nss-myhostname-0.3.tar.gz">Version
+0.3</a> released. Changes include: Always return locally configured IP
+addresses first, use 127.0.0.2/::1 only as fallback if no addresses
+are configured.</p>
+
<div class="news-date">Mon Oct 27 2008: </div>
<p class="news-text"><a
@@ -55,16 +62,18 @@ released. Initial release.</p>
<p><tt>nss-myhostname</tt> is a plugin for the GNU Name Service Switch
(NSS) functionality of the GNU C Library (<tt>glibc</tt>) providing
host name resolution for the locally configured system hostname as
-returned by <tt>gethostname(2)</tt>. A lot of software relies on that the
-local host name is resolvable via DNS to an IPv4 or IPv6 address. When
-using dynamic hostnames this is usually achieved by
-patching <tt>/etc/hosts</tt> which however is suboptimal since it
-requires a writable <tt>/etc</tt> file system and is fragile because
-the file might also be edited by the
-administrator. <tt>nss-myhostname</tt> simply returns the IPv4
+returned by <tt>gethostname(2)</tt>. Various software relies on an
+always resolvable local host name. When using dynamic hostnames this
+is usually achieved by patching <tt>/etc/hosts</tt> at the same time
+as changing the host name. This however is not ideal since it requires
+a writable <tt>/etc</tt> file system and is fragile because the file
+might be edited by the administrator at the same
+time. <tt>nss-myhostname</tt> simply returns all locally configure
+public IP addresses, or -- if none are configured -- the IPv4
address <tt>127.0.0.2</tt> (wich is on the local loopback) and the
IPv6 address <tt>::1</tt> (which is the local host) for whatever
-system hostname is configured locally. Patching <tt>/etc/hostname</tt> is thus no longer necessary.</p>
+system hostname is configured locally. Patching <tt>/etc/hosts</tt>
+is thus no longer necessary.</p>
<h2><a name="status">Current Status</a></h2>
@@ -123,11 +132,10 @@ precedence.</p>
<p><tt>nss-myhostname</tt> uses NSS interfaces that are specific to modern <tt>glibc</tt>'s.</p>
-<p><tt>nss-myhostname</tt> was developed and tested on Fedora 10
-from October 2008, it should work on most other Linux
-distributions since it uses GNU autoconf and
-GNU libtool for source code configuration and shared library
-management.</p>
+<p><tt>nss-myhostname</tt> was developed and tested on Fedora 15 from
+May 2011, it should work on most other Linux distributions since it
+uses GNU autoconf and GNU libtool for source code configuration and
+shared library management.</p>
<h2><a name="installation">Installation</a></h2>
@@ -152,7 +160,7 @@ compilation and <tt>make install</tt> (as root) for installation of
<pre>git clone git://git.0pointer.de/nss-myhostname</pre>
<hr/>
-<address class="grey">Lennart Poettering &lt;@PACKAGE_BUGREPORT@&gt;, October 2008</address>
+<address class="grey">Lennart Poettering &lt;@PACKAGE_BUGREPORT@&gt;, May 2011</address>
</body>
</html>