[chef] Re: fqdn and hostname

[Lamont Granquist < >]

On 1/24/13 9:40 AM, 

 
 wrote:
> On an Ubuntu box, let's say the hostname is machine1.example.com.
>
> In /etc/hosts, the first line is
>
> 1.2.3.4   machine1   machine1.example.com
>
> What will chef consider the fqdn and hostname?    Apparently just "machine1".
>
> Now that I have discovered this strange quirk, I wonder if I should use this 
> on
> purpose, to make the machine names smaller.     Or, be careful to avoid this
> loophole.    I am just thinking out loud.    Do people generally use the whole
> fqdn...
when you're doing a reverse lookup on 1.2.3.4 with that config you're 
getting back the first name which is the short hostname.  to get the 
FQDN just reverse that to:

1.2.3.4 machine1.example.com machine1