OK, I have modified netcfg so that it writes
127.0.0.1 localhost
to /etc/hosts.
>From now on let's consider at least the following two phenomena to be
bugs:
* The application expects to be able to resolve 'localhost.localdomain'
to an IP address.
* The application breaks if 'localhost.localdomain' is included on the
127.0.0.1 line in /etc/hosts.
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Thomas Hood