emv@math.lsa.umich.edu (Edward Vielmetti) (02/15/90)
Fully qualified domain names in the hostname is generally 4.3 behavior, as opposed to 4.2 which only had the first part. Biggest hassle is that when you have names as long as ours, e.g. dirichlet.math.lsa.umich.edu -- it's a hassle to have csh prompts with the full name in it. Also you'll tickle some bugs in some vendors software (e.g. SunOS 4.0.3 lockd) where they have buffers of less than MAXDNAME (arpa/nameser.h) to hold hostnames. The csh business is fixable for new users but it's harder to try to retrofit old users stuff piecemeal. Which bugs are you running into -- I might be seeing the same ones.... --Ed