Fast own hostname resolution

[Tim Johnson]

If I want to resolv my own hostname the system will use /etc/hosts or DNS to do this. If there's no entry for my hostname in hosts file and no DNS answer (because missing network connection), the system isn't able to resolv my own hostname to an ip adress. If the network connection is very slow, it can take long time to resolv. ifconfig does still work in less then one second.

host `hostname` should be as fast as ifconfig (or faster as ifconfig because less output)

[Marcus Asshauer (mcas)]

Thank you for your suggestion. However, the changes you are requesting aren't really a bug and require more discussion, which should be done on an appropriate mailing list or forum. [WWW] http://www.ubuntu.com/support/community/mailinglists might be a good start for determining which mailing list to use.