Summary
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.
Versions
v0.3-r1 :: 0 :: gentoo
- Modified
- License
- LGPL-2.1+
- Keywords
- amd64 arm arm64 ppc ppc64 sparc x86 ~alpha ~loong ~riscv
Depending packages
app-admin / openrc-settingsd : System settings D-Bus service for OpenRC
Bugs
- 716284
- sys-auth/nss-myhostname-0.3 : nss-myhostname.c: error: conflicting types for _nss_myhostname_gethostbyname4_r
Change logs
- Repository mirror & CI · gentoo
Merge updates from master - Arthur Zamarin · gentoo
*/*: unkeyword ~ia64
Change was created by running the following command:: ekeyword ^ia64 */*/*.ebuild Signed-off-by: Arthur Zamarin <arthurzam@gentoo.org> - Repository mirror & CI · gentoo
Merge updates from master - Filip Kobierski · gentoo
sys-auth/nss-myhostname: remove empty variables
Signed-off-by: Filip Kobierski <fkobi@pm.me> Signed-off-by: Joonas Niilola <juippis@gentoo.org> - Repository mirror & CI · gentoo
Merge updates from master - WANG Xuerui · gentoo
sys-auth/nss-myhostname: keyword 0.3-r1 for ~loong
Signed-off-by: WANG Xuerui <xen0n@gentoo.org> - Repository mirror & CI · gentoo
Merge updates from master - Yixun Lan · gentoo
sys-auth/nss-myhostname: keyword ~riscv
Package-Manager: Portage-3.0.20, Repoman-3.0.3 Signed-off-by: Yixun Lan <dlan@gentoo.org> - Repository mirror & CI · gentoo
Merge updates from master - Sam James · gentoo
sys-auth/nss-myhostname: Stabilize 0.3-r1 arm64, #773172
Signed-off-by: Sam James <sam@gentoo.org> - Repository mirror & CI · gentoo
Merge updates from master - Michał Górny · gentoo
sys-auth/nss-myhostname: Bump to EAPI 7
Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/742089 Signed-off-by: Michał Górny <mgorny@gentoo.org> - Repository mirror & CI · gentoo
Merge updates from master - Matt Turner · gentoo
*/*: Drop stable ia64 keywords
Signed-off-by: Matt Turner <mattst88@gentoo.org> - Repository mirror & CI · gentoo
Merge updates from master - Michał Górny · gentoo
*/*: Bump copyright on files touched this year
Update the copyright notice on all files that were touched since January 1st but did not have the notice updated. Signed-off-by: Michał Górny <mgorny@gentoo.org> - Repository mirror & CI · gentoo
Merge updates from master - Matt Turner · gentoo
*/*: Drop stable alpha keywords
Signed-off-by: Matt Turner <mattst88@gentoo.org> - Alexis Ballier · gentoo
sys-auth/nss-myhostname: keyword ~arm64
Package-Manager: Portage-2.3.6, Repoman-2.3.3 - Robin H. Johnson · gentoo
Drop $Id$ per council decision in bug #611234.
Signed-off-by: Robin H. Johnson <robbat2@gentoo.org> - Robin H. Johnson · gentoo
proj/gentoo: Initial commit
This commit represents a new era for Gentoo: Storing the gentoo-x86 tree in Git, as converted from CVS. This commit is the start of the NEW history. Any historical data is intended to be grafted onto this point. Creation process: 1. Take final CVS checkout snapshot 2. Remove ALL ChangeLog* files 3. Transform all Manifests to thin 4. Remove empty Manifests 5. Convert all stale $Header$/$Id$ CVS keywords to non-expanded Git $Id$ 5.1. Do not touch files with -kb/-ko keyword flags. Signed-off-by: Robin H. Johnson <robbat2@gentoo.org> X-Thanks: Alec Warner <antarus@gentoo.org> - did the GSoC 2006 migration tests X-Thanks: Robin H. Johnson <robbat2@gentoo.org> - infra guy, herding this project X-Thanks: Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@gentoo.org> - Former Gentoo developer, wrote Git features for the migration X-Thanks: Brian Harring <ferringb@gentoo.org> - wrote much python to improve cvs2svn X-Thanks: Rich Freeman <rich0@gentoo.org> - validation scripts X-Thanks: Patrick Lauer <patrick@gentoo.org> - Gentoo dev, running new 2014 work in migration X-Thanks: Michał Górny <mgorny@gentoo.org> - scripts, QA, nagging X-Thanks: All of other Gentoo developers - many ideas and lots of paint on the bikeshed