INN and docker default hostnames

[Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski]

On Friday, 20 September 2024 at 12:12, Julien ÉLIE wrote:
[...]
> I suggest to also recognize an INN_HOSTNAME environment variable, if set.
> Wouldn't it solve the problems when using Docker or like?
> 
> We already read some environment variables like INNCONF (alternate path to
> inn.conf), NNTPSERVER, INND_BIND_ADDRESS, INND_BIND_ADDRESS6, FROMHOST,
> ORGANIZATION, and UU_MACHINE.
> 
> Why not have the following behaviour for the hostname:
> - the INN_HOSTNAME environment variable if fully qualified;
> - the result of gethostname(3) if fully qualified;
> - the result of getaddrinfo(3) if fully qualified;
> - the concatenation of "hostname.domain" where hostname is the result of
> gethostname(3) and domain the value of the eponym parameter in inn.conf.

Perhaps INND_HOSTNAME would be better for consistency with the existing
INND_* variables?

Regards,
Dominik
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