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See the GNU +Lesser General Public License for more details.</p> + +<h2><a name="news">News</a></h2> + +<div class="news-date">Mon Oct 27 2008: </div> + +<p class="news-text"><a +href="@PACKAGE_URL@nss-myhostname-0.2.tar.gz">Version 0.2</a> +released. Changes include: Update for IPv6 and newest glibc NSS interfaces</p> + +<div class="news-date">Sat Nov 19 2005: </div> + +<p class="news-text"><a +href="@PACKAGE_URL@nss-myhostname-0.1.tar.gz">Version 0.1</a> +released. Initial release.</p> + +<h2><a name="overview">Overview</a></h2> + +<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 +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> + +<h2><a name="status">Current Status</a></h2> + +<p>It works!</p> + +<h2><a name="documentation">Documentation</a></h2> + +<p>After compiling and installing <tt>nss-myhostname</tt> you'll find a +new NSS modules in <tt>/lib</tt>:</p> +<ul> +<li><tt>libnss_myhostname.so.2</tt></li> +</ul> + +<p>To activate the NSS modules you have to edit +<tt>/etc/nsswitch.conf</tt> and add <tt>myhostname</tt> to the +line starting with "<tt>hosts:</tt>". On Debian this looks like +this:</p> + +<pre># /etc/nsswitch.conf + +passwd: compat +group: compat +shadow: compat + +hosts: files dns <b>myhostname</b> +networks: files + +protocols: db files +services: db files +ethers: db files +rpc: db files + +netgroup: nis</pre> + +<p>That's it. You should now always be able to resolve your local +system hostname. For a quick check +use <tt>glibc</tt>'s <tt>getent</tt> tool: + +<pre>$ getent ahosts `hostname` +::1 STREAM omega +::1 DGRAM +::1 RAW +127.0.0.2 STREAM +127.0.0.2 DGRAM +127.0.0.2 RAW +</pre> + +<p>In this case the local host name is <i>omega</i>.</p> + +<p>It is recommended to put <tt>myhostname</tt> last in +the <tt>nsswitch.conf</tt> line to make sure that this mapping is only +used as fallback, and any DNS or <tt>/etc/hosts</tt> based mapping takes +precedence.</p> + +<h2><a name="requirements">Requirements</a></h2> + +<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> + +<h2><a name="installation">Installation</a></h2> + +<p>As this package is made with the GNU autotools you should run +<tt>./configure</tt> inside the distribution directory for configuring +the source tree. After that you should run <tt>make</tt> for +compilation and <tt>make install</tt> (as root) for installation of +<tt>nss-myhostname</tt>.</p> + +<h2><a name="acks">Acknowledgements</a></h2> + +<p>None so far.</p> + +<h2><a name="download">Download</a></h2> + +<p>The newest release is always available from <a href="@PACKAGE_URL@">@PACKAGE_URL@</a></p> + +<p>The current release is <a href="@PACKAGE_URL@nss-myhostname-@PACKAGE_VERSION@.tar.gz">@PACKAGE_VERSION@</a></p> + +<p>Get <tt>nss-myhostname</tt>'s development sources from the <a href="http://git.or.cz/">GIT</a> <a href="git://git.0pointer.de/nss-myhostname">repository</a> (<a href="http://git.0pointer.de/?p=nss-myhostname.git">gitweb</a>): </p> + +<pre>git clone git://git.0pointer.de/nss-myhostname</pre> + +<hr/> +<address class="grey">Lennart Poettering <@PACKAGE_BUGREPORT@>, October 2008</address> + +</body> +</html> |