(In reply to comment #5)
> According to the sudoers manual:
>
> "Beware that turning on fqdn requires sudo to make DNS lookups which may make
> sudo unusable if DNS stops working (for example if the machine is not plugged
> into the network). Also note that you must use the host's official name as DNS
> knows it. That is, you may not use a host alias (CNAME entry) due to performance
> issues and the fact that there is no way to get all aliases from DNS. If your
> machine's hostname (as returned by the hostname command) is already fully
> qualified you shouldn't need to set fqdn. This flag is off by default."
>
We can probably safely turn this off for new installs then and document that it
needs to be on for host based aliases
in README and in the sudoers file.
(In reply to comment #5)
> According to the sudoers manual:
>
> "Beware that turning on fqdn requires sudo to make DNS lookups which may make
> sudo unusable if DNS stops working (for example if the machine is not plugged
> into the network). Also note that you must use the host's official name as DNS
> knows it. That is, you may not use a host alias (CNAME entry) due to performance
> issues and the fact that there is no way to get all aliases from DNS. If your
> machine's hostname (as returned by the hostname command) is already fully
> qualified you shouldn't need to set fqdn. This flag is off by default."
>
We can probably safely turn this off for new installs then and document that it
needs to be on for host based aliases
in README and in the sudoers file.