On Oct 08, Frans Pop <aragorn@tiscali.nl> wrote: > You give nice explanations how things work, but fail to say anywhere why > having localhost.localdomain first is so wrong. > What breaks? What standards (with reference please) are not honored? An obvious problem is that gethostbyaddr and DNS queries will now return a different answer. > What alternative solutions do you propose for the problems that led up to > it being included? It has already been explained that a better solution with no side effects would be to add an alias like 127.1.0.1 -- ciao, Marco
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