> > On Tue, 2010-04-06 at 23:47 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: > >> I believe Patrick may have missed the part about your using >> "system-control-network"...if that is of any value. > Not really, given that he didn't say he was using s-c-n but something > called the "network control applet" in Gnome. Since I don't use Gnome, > I've no idea what that means, if anything. My reply simply pointed out > that localhost is widely assumed to be defined, and that having it > undefined is likely to lead to breakage. Said breakage may or may not > affect the network connectivity directly, but you can be sure that > something somewhere will not work as expected, i.e. it's a bad idea. > > I don't use Gnome either. And, AFAIK, there really is no such thing as a "Network Control Applet". I did fire up Gnome and found there is a "Network Control" item in the Gnome menus so I assumed that is what he was using. Bottom line, I was nearly 100% sure he was using a GUI to do the bidding and "hoped" that any GUI wouldn't be so foolish as to muck with the "localhost" settings in the hosts file. He also showed, via ipconfig, that his adapter no longer had an IP address associated with it. That, to me, demonstrates a "dead" network. However, I was unable to reproduce the issue.
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