[MythDora] New video4linux packages

[Jarod Wilson]

On Monday 23 April 2007 11:14:05 gchris wrote:
> Jarod Wilson wrote:
> > On Sunday 22 April 2007 23:47:52 gchris wrote:
> >> gchris wrote:
> >>> That's also very smart.  I'd noticed in my last mythtv build that setup
> >>> seems to be moving some things around and adding new settings for first
> >>> time builders to screw up, so anything that you can do to reduce
> >>> choices that need to be made is almost certainly a good thing.
> >>> Chris
> >>
> >> P.S. One thing that bothered me about the earlier MythDora releases is a
> >> nagging feeling that 'localhost' is a reserved name in Windows networks,
> >> not to be used as an actual host name within a network.  Does that ring
> >> any bells at all or is it just a figment of my imagination?
> >
> > Well, localhost is typically reserved on all hosts, solely for pointing
> > at the local host's loopback address, 127.0.0.1. Its set up by default on
> > every Linux box and has been for some time. We don't do anything special
> > to it, so I think there's nothing to worry about there.
>
> The association that you described is exactly the way it is used in
> Windows machines as well but in the Windows world the association is
> hard coded so 'localhost' always means '127.0.0.1'.  The problem arises
> when you use 'localhost' as a machine's network name.  It's been way too
> many years since I last encountered this but it seems to me that some
> Windows code refuses to talk to a box on a network which is named
> localhost, either because the address is out of range for a network or
> because the code assumes the traffic is destined for *this* box, not a
> remote one.  The "special" thing that MythDora does is it defaults to
> localhost.localdomain as the box's network name

Are you sure? We shouldn't be... That should only be for loopback. I've got a 
fresh install here, and the only place localhost points to on it is 
127.0.0.1...

> and if I recall 
> correctly, doesn't follow normal Fedora conventions for allowing the
> user to change that.

If you run through the latest installer, it'll let you set a host name at 
install time, and there shouldn't be anything stopping you from changing it 
after install.

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Jarod Wilson
jarod at wilsonet.com