Gabor Gombas wrote:
Then fix those other broken things as well.Contrary to popular belief among our users, system administrators does not have access to every server on the internet. Therefore, I can not help you solve this issue in this way.
Instead, I propose we return the content of the Debian /etc/hosts file to the way it was before the change.
If you want localhost-style authentication, you _should_ do the comparison on the IP address rather than the resolved name for several reasons:
[snip good reasons]I don't trust client address/name resolving for any authentication of clients. I resent the implication that I do.
-- Stig Sandbeck Mathisen