On Sat, 2006-05-20 at 08:41 -0400, William L. Maltby wrote:
> On Sat, 2006-05-20 at 07:48 -0400, Alfred von Campe wrote:
> > On May 20, 2006, at 7:33, Johnny Hughes wrote:
> >
> > ><snip>
>
> > > Put the localhost name first in the line, like this:
> > >
> > >
> > > 127.0.0.1 localhost xxxxx yyyy.yyy
> >
> > I've seen this cause many problems with other tools as well (not just
> > mysql). I always thought it was wrong to include the actual hostname
> > in the localhost line, and it's one of the first thing I change after
> > building a system. Does any one else think it's a good idea to
> > include the hostname in this line?
>
> If you mean
>
> 127.0.0.1 mynodename ...
>
> instead of
>
> 127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.localdomain
>
> for example?
>
> From rom *everything* I have encountered and read (from knowledgeable
> folks?), only "localhost" and closely related should be there. Your
> "real" node name should be on a line that assigns it's real IP address.
>
> HTH
>
The problem is ... if you have DHCP ... you need the name of the machine
in the same line, as your IP address changes
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