On Sat, 13 Sep 2008, John R Pierce wrote:
RobertH wrote:
Marcus,
Exactly, I have often wondered upstream does it that way so that I always
have to go fix the /etc/hosts file after every CentOS install.
Since functionally, it is wrong.
indeed, having the hostname bound to the loopback interface seems to break a
bunch of our java stuff too. first thing we've always had to do after a
CentOS/RHEL install is change /etc/hosts, and put the hostname on its own
line with the static IP, or leave it out entirely.
To some extent this confusion on how host names are
determined, is an artifact being expressed due to the host
being in a environment without the reverse DNS entries lookup
working properly, or being built at one address and deployed
to another with static networking. (sometimes the result gets
saved into: /etc/sysconfig/network by anaconda -- by hand
editing /etc/hosts, one is 'cacheing' an answer there ;) )
The 'dance' of hostname setting makes a series of inquiries,
until it hits a 'success' state. By editting /etc/hosts, one
is permitting it to find an answer that is 'less good' than
the rDNS, but still good enough. Ditto editting
/etc/sysconfig/network as the documentation in:
rpm -qd initscripts
describes.
This has not changed in years, but is not as well documented
as it might be, as this thread reveals.
-- Russ herrold
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