Good Evening. > Hit that nail on the head and exactly what I was describing. > > Thing is, why does upstream and/or other distros do that? > > What is the reasoning? The reason for setting a hostname on loopback is simple. Major distributions want to brand their installs even if the box has not network interface configured. Best Regards Marcus _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
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