ping通本机主机名问题

前提：/etc/hosts文件里面未添加任何主机名记录，/etc/resolv.conf文件也没有配置正确（或不配置）。
现象：在CentOS7上，只修改了本机主机名，ping一下结果通了，很奇怪。
解释：
原来在/etc/nsswitch.conf文件中hosts多了一个项：

#hosts:     db files nisplus nis dns
hosts:      files dns myhostname

就是那个myhostname项，/etc/hosts和dns都解析不到IP时，myhostname就起作用了，它可以把hostname，解析成自己范围内的IP地址，因此就可以ping通了。

可以通过下面命令查看hostname对应的IP：

# getent ahosts `hostname`
fe80::f816:3eff:fe26:6d42 STREAM centos7-bind-1
fe80::f816:3eff:fe26:6d42 DGRAM  
fe80::f816:3eff:fe26:6d42 RAW    
192.168.122.84  STREAM 
192.168.122.84  DGRAM  
192.168.122.84  RAW    

# ping `hostname`
PING centos7-bind-1 (192.168.122.84) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from centos7-bind-1 (192.168.122.84): icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.120 ms
64 bytes from centos7-bind-1 (192.168.122.84): icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=0.043 ms

nss-myhostname, libnss_myhostname.so.2英文描述：
nss-myhostname, libnss_myhostname.so.2 — Provide hostname resolution for the locally configured system hostname.

nss-myhostname is a plugin for the GNU Name Service Switch (NSS) functionality of the GNU C Library (glibc) primarily providing hostname resolution for the locally configured system hostname as returned by gethostname(2). The precise hostnames resolved by this module are:

• The local, configured hostname is resolved to all locally configured IP addresses ordered by their scope, or — if none are configured — the IPv4 address 127.0.0.2 (which is on the local loopback) and the IPv6 address ::1 (which is the local host).

• The hostname “localhost” is resolved to the IP addresses 127.0.0.1 and ::1.

• The hostname “gateway” is resolved to all current default routing gateway addresses, ordered by their metric. This assigns a stable hostname to the current gateway, useful for referencing it independently of the current network configuration state.

myhostname详细URL：
http://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/nss-myhostname.html