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  1. Bug #871966
  2. Comment #5

Comment 5 for bug 871966

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Clint Byrum (clint-fewbar) wrote : Re: [Bug 871966] Re: FQDN written to /etc/hosts causes problems for clustering systems

Excerpts from Scott Moser's message of Tue Oct 11 00:18:27 UTC 2011:
> gethostbyname(hostname) is non-determinable.
> there could be multiple responses. and indeterminable order.
>

Agreed, which is precisely why I believe cloud-init must leave the FQDN
out of /etc/hosts if there is any response to this call.