policy: stop touching /etc/hosts

Handling of /etc/hosts is highly site- and admin- specific in
many more complex cases, and it's exceedingly hard and error-
prone for NetworkManager to handle all those cases.  So remove
this functionality entirely.  That's not a big loss, as it
turns out there's a much more elegant solution.

The only requirement is that the machine's hostname map back
to an IP address owned by the machine.  That requirement can
be satisifed by nss-myhostname or even possibly the distro's
installer.  If the user does not want nss-myhostname then it
can be uninstalled.  Distros should use a "recommends" feature
in their packaging system so that the NetworkManager package
does *not* have a hard requirement on nss-myhostname.  Thus
everyone is happy; things Just Work when nss-myhostname is
installed, but more advanced users can uninstall it and
customize /etc/hosts as they wish.

Another alternative is a dispatcher script that listents for
the 'hostname' event, and updates /etc/hosts according to the
administrator's preference.
This commit is contained in:
Dan Williams
2010-12-17 09:22:11 -06:00
parent 5705850779
commit 39eed50e47
7 changed files with 81 additions and 1337 deletions

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@@ -49,6 +49,7 @@
#include "nm-netlink-monitor.h"
#include "nm-vpn-manager.h"
#include "nm-logging.h"
#include "nm-policy-hosts.h"
#if !defined(NM_DIST_VERSION)
# define NM_DIST_VERSION VERSION
@@ -717,6 +718,9 @@ main (int argc, char *argv[])
goto done;
}
/* Clean leftover "# Added by NetworkManager" entries from /etc/hosts */
nm_policy_hosts_clean_etc_hosts ();
nm_manager_start (manager);
/* Bring up the loopback interface. */