Re: [BK] disconnected operation

[Kyle Moffett]

On Dec 28, 2004, at 09:33, Ricky Beam wrote:
> On Sun, 26 Dec 2004, Martin Dalecki wrote:
> > A hostname simply isn't a fixed attribute of a host anymore.
>
> It is on properly setup and maintained machines.
>
> The problem are all those people writing programs that think they are 
> doing
> the world a favor by screwing with the hostname and various other 
> settings
> for us... there's no reason for dhcp to change my hostname.  At least 
> on
> linux, no dhcp implementation touches /etc/hosts. (Solaris has screwed 
> up
> the hosts file for years.)
>
> These are the same machines that don't have FQDN's as the first name 
> per
> entry in /etc/hosts (which pisses off many incarnations of glibc.) 
> *grin*

So what would happen to somebody who put their BK files on a portable
drive and carried it from home to work.  That's a perfectly reasonable 
thing to
do, both for security and for speed reasons, but it would appear to 
cause
problems.

Cheers,
Kyle Moffett

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