[cups.general] short host name versus FQDN in Allow directives

Matthias Czapla dermatsch at gmx.de
Wed Jun 30 06:36:12 PDT 2004


On Wed, Jun 30, 2004 at 09:03:37AM -0400, Michael Sweet wrote:
> >So I tried to put the short host name "ddm" in the Allow directive
> >and then it works. Why doesn't the FQDN work too? I have a local DNS
> >server running and so far it has worked without troubles, i.e. I can
> >lookup host names and IPs forward and reverse:
> >
> ><root at ddm /etc/cups>host ddm
> >ddm.fick.xxx has address 192.168.128.1
> ><root at ddm /etc/cups>host ddm.fick.xxx
> >ddm.fick.xxx has address 192.168.128.1
> ><root at ddm /etc/cups>host 192.168.128.1
> >1.128.168.192.in-addr.arpa domain name pointer ddm.fick.xxx.
> >
> >Of course this is all not a super big problem because I could just
> >use the short names, but shouldn't the FQDN work exactly the same?
> 
> It should - check the /etc/hosts file on your server and make sure
> that the short hostname isn't listed there...

It isn't. Here is my /etc/hosts:

127.0.0.1	localhost

# The following lines are desirable for IPv6 capable hosts
# (added automatically by netbase upgrade)

::1     ip6-localhost ip6-loopback
fe00::0 ip6-localnet
ff00::0 ip6-mcastprefix
ff02::1 ip6-allnodes
ff02::2 ip6-allrouters
ff02::3 ip6-allhosts

Regards
Matthias





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