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AI-generatedInconsistent hostname resolution between /etc/hostname and /etc/hosts causes production failures in Arch Linux
Systemd-hostnamed resolves the system hostname by first reading the contents of /etc/hostname and then consulting /etc/hosts, a design intended to support dynamic host configuration. In local installations where both files contain matching entries, hostname services operate as expected, but in production or containerized setups the /etc/hosts file may be abs
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