On Mon, 1 Sep 2008, Ryan Novosielski wrote:

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> At one time, Linux specifically recommended that you NOT do this.
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> Is it still true?

It is for a network connected machine.

For a network connected machine, the primary interface should be labelled
with the machine's name.


127.0.0.1  localhost.[$localdomain] localhost

10.2.3.4   hostname.[$localdomain] alias.example.com alias hostname

Entries for any given line should be in the order given,

ie: Unqualified names LAST


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