Re: localhost in /etc/hosts
On Sun, Nov 12, 2006 at 11:28:45PM +0200, Hans du Plooy wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> Just wondering, which is correct:
>
> 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost
>
> or
>
> 127.0.0.1 localhost
>
> The linux networking howto
> (http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/NET3-4-HOWTO-5.html) muddies the water even
> more:
>
> 127.0.0.1 localhost loopback
To muddy the water a little more, I have
127.0.0.1 quash localhost loopback
where "quash" is the name of the machine. I don't remember how I came
to do this, but it must have been from some debian documentation.
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