By Alvin Alexander. Last updated: December 28, 2018
I just started using a new version of SBT, and when I went to run a test I got this SBT warning message:
[warn] Getting the hostname Alvins-MacBook-Pro.local was slow (5003.850955 ms). This is likely because the computer's hostname is not set. You can set the hostname with the command: scutil --set HostName $(scutil --get LocalHostName).
I thought that was a bizarre message to come from a tool like SBT — why does it have to do a hostname lookup for a local test? — but as you can see from this commit on Github, this is intentionally done, and the warning message is intentionally added.
After doing a little more research (like this page) I went ahead and ran the scutil
command shown and the warning message went away.