Re: /etc/hosts: Two lines with the same IP address?
On Tue, Jun 08, 2004 at 02:48:06PM +0100, Andrew Suffield wrote:
> The problem then is that 'getent hosts 127.0.0.1' returns 'pingo'
> instead of 'localhost'.
thats why it is a bad thing to alias the hostname to 127.0.0.1 and
should be avoided: however on systems with no (static) ip, one can either
use 127.0.0.1 (and either break hostname --fqdn or break 127.0.0.1 reverse
resolving to localhost) or use a dummy interface with a dummy ip.
Greetings
Bernd
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