On Thu, 2011-08-25 at 14:31 +0930, Tim wrote: > Tim: > >> No matter what anybody says, and despite the setup of Fedora doing > >> it, it's a bad bad BAD idea to bodge *anything* else into those two > >> local lines. Sure, you can get away with it under *some* > >> circumstances. But you can run into a hell of a lot of pain under > >> other circumstances. > > Craig White: > > I'm not a fan of it either but that is indeed the way things are done. > > I'm sort of old school on this myself but Ubuntu does things > > similarly... > > > > 127.0.0.1 localhost > > 127.0.1.1 srv2.azapple.com srv2 > > Probably *less* of an issue, since they've not used 127.0.0.1. Although > it can behave the same, the names and numbers are different, and > shouldn't resolve back to each other. But if anything needs the machine > name's IP to resolve to an IP that something else will find it at, then > problems may still arise. > > > I sort of decided to stop fighting it and go with the flow. It works > > fine. > > I've always found it to be a problem with servers. Mail servers being > one of them. It seems less of an issue with clients, and I've just let > clients automatically set themselves up. ---- that IS my server and it uses postfix & cyrus-imapd - absolutely no problems. Craig -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
