man: stop recommending putting myhostname after dns
authorFlorian Klink <flokli@flokli.de>
Thu, 1 Jul 2021 20:11:27 +0000 (22:11 +0200)
committerZbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek@in.waw.pl>
Fri, 23 Jul 2021 10:00:20 +0000 (12:00 +0200)
commitba1b0207bb6d344de0266a1694745ae9f12114a3
tree218c3834858e53252383cae12d153bd2d4cd26a0
parentbd055f161490c88dcca68a350a24235865d0fe06
man: stop recommending putting myhostname after dns

nss-resolve also looks in /etc/hosts, and has the same local hostname
resolving logic as nss-myhostname. We shouldn't recommend another order
than nss-resolve uses internally.

When nss-resolve is used, there's no possibility to override
nss-myhostname hosts via DNS *anyway*.

On top of that, it's not a good idea to allow DNS to override local
hostnames as all - at least not something we should advertise in the
docs.

Followup of f918c67d38ba6ccd4eb0dc657f3f3155e5010cae /
https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/16754.

(cherry picked from commit ce266330fc3bd6767451ac3400336cd9acebe9c1)
(cherry picked from commit 21423efc5852194ba3bf2bbc8067258e35c1558d)
man/nss-myhostname.xml