Re: localhost in email headers

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On Tue, 2003-10-07 at 08:32, Joe Polk wrote:
> When you have a line like this:
> Received: from foo.com (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1])
> is it advantageous to remove your localhost entry from /etc/hosts to keep 
> this from happening?  If not, should this be corrected and if so, how?
> 

NO!  do not remove that line from /etc/hosts there are several services
that need to be able to resolve 127.0.0.1 to a name.

Bret


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