On Friday 08 January 2010 10:23:20 Magnus Therning wrote: > On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 12:53 PM, Baho Utot <baho-utot@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > FYI > > I was having trouble with networking several years ago and had a > > /etc/host like yours. I posted to usenet and the network gurus there > > promptly busted me for that layout. > > > > They told me to do this instead: > > > > #<ip-address> <hostname.domain.org> <hostname> > > 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost > > 127.0.0.2 arch.<yourdomain> arch > > > > They claim that the above conforms to the RFC's and reusing the 127.0.0.1 > > address can confuse some apps. > > > > I have been using the above and it has always worked, no busted apps. > > I think this comes close to what Debian does, I've kept my /etc/hosts > file since I ran Debian and it looks like this: > > #<ip-address> <hostname.domain.org> <hostname> > 127.0.0.1 localhost > 127.0.1.1 bryma.fq.dn bryma > > There's an explanation for it here > http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/reference/ch-gateway.en.html#s-net-dns ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Not Found The requested URL /doc/manuals/reference/ch-gateway.en.html was not found on this server. Apache Server at www.debian.org Port 80
