Cannot join the uts namespace of a running container

[space88man]

Is this a BUG REPORT or FEATURE REQUEST? (leave only one on its own line)

/kind bug

Description
A container is unable to join the uts namespace of another running container.

Steps to reproduce the issue:

1. podman run --rm -it --name uts_1 centos:8

2. podman run --rm -it --name uts_2 --network container:uts_1 --uts container:uts_1 centos:8

Describe the results you received:
Error: unable to retrieve hostname from dependency container uts_1: container uts_1 not found in DB: no such container

Describe the results you expected:
Container uts_2 has joined the network/uts namespace of container uts_1

Additional information you deem important (e.g. issue happens only occasionally):

Output of podman version:

Version:            1.8.0
RemoteAPI Version:  1
Go Version:         go1.13.6
OS/Arch:            linux/amd64

Output of podman info --debug:

debug:
  compiler: gc
  git commit: ""
  go version: go1.13.6
  podman version: 1.8.0
host:
  BuildahVersion: 1.13.1
  CgroupVersion: v2
  Conmon:
    package: conmon-2.0.10-2.fc31.x86_64
    path: /usr/bin/conmon
    version: 'conmon version 2.0.10, commit: 6b526d9888abb86b9e7de7dfdeec0da98ad32ee0'
  Distribution:
    distribution: fedora
    version: "31"
  MemFree: 8489852928
  MemTotal: 33608642560
  OCIRuntime:
    name: crun
    package: crun-0.12.1-1.fc31.x86_64
    path: /usr/bin/crun
    version: |-
      crun version 0.12.1
      commit: df5f2b2369b3d9f36d175e1183b26e5cee55dd0a
      spec: 1.0.0
      +SYSTEMD +SELINUX +APPARMOR +CAP +SECCOMP +EBPF +YAJL
  SwapFree: 0
  SwapTotal: 0
  arch: amd64
  cpus: 8
  eventlogger: journald
  hostname: podman.test.com
  kernel: 5.4.17-200.fc31.x86_64
  os: linux
  rootless: false
  uptime: 233h 0m 40.52s (Approximately 9.71 days)
registries:
  search:
  - docker.io
  - registry.fedoraproject.org
  - registry.access.redhat.com
  - registry.centos.org
  - quay.io
store:
  ConfigFile: /etc/containers/storage.conf
  ContainerStore:
    number: 11
  GraphDriverName: overlay
  GraphOptions:
    overlay.mountopt: nodev,metacopy=on
  GraphRoot: /var/lib/containers/storage
  GraphStatus:
    Backing Filesystem: xfs
    Native Overlay Diff: "false"
    Supports d_type: "true"
    Using metacopy: "true"
  ImageStore:
    number: 18
  RunRoot: /var/run/containers/storage
  VolumePath: /var/lib/containers/storage/volumes

Package info (e.g. output of rpm -q podman or apt list podman):

podman-1.8.0-2.fc31.x86_64

Additional environment details (AWS, VirtualBox, physical, etc.):

[giuseppe]

looks like the lookup for alias is broken.

It works if the full ID is provided

[giuseppe]

PR here: #5332