On Thu, 2007-09-27 at 09:59 -0400, Harry Hoffman wrote: > Hi, > > So, /etc/hosts comes setup by default (i.e. after kickstart install) > > # Do not remove the following line, or various programs > # that require network functionality will fail. > 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost > > I'm fairly certain to not too long ago (redhat-9 perhaps) the hostname > of the system was also added to the localhost entry: > > 127.0.0.1 my.host.com my localhost.localdomain localhost > > > This had the distinct advantage that when apps (i.e. yum-updatesd) sent > mail from the system via a mail host then address would appear as: > root@xxxxxxxxxxx instead of root@xxxxxxxxxxxxx But breaks miserably in other situations when you wanto to resolve the ip address of your machine. A typical example is kerberos and winbindd (also using kerberos). > Am I remembering correctly, in terms of how I believe it used to be? If > so, anyone know why it changed? Breaks stuff. Simo. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
