Bug#247734: hostname on multiple lines in /etc/hosts

[Thomas Hood <jdthood@aglu.demon.nl>]

On Mon, 2004-06-07 at 23:02, Pierre Machard wrote:
> > I can think of a couple of different ways of solving this problem.
> > The first is to eliminate 'pingo' from the 127.0.0.1 line if and
> > only if 'pingo' appears on some other line.
> 
> That's what I commited to the subversion tree, but apparently Joshua
> did not integrate this change.

I suppose that is the less risky thing to do since it doesn't involve
us in creating hosts files with multiple lines for the same IP address.
Can this be implemented easily and obviously correctly?


> > 127.0.0.1       localhost
> > 10.10.0.17      pingo.miss-knife.net    pingo
> > 127.0.0.1       pingo
>
> Somehow interesting, maybe we should ask to d-devel@l.d.o ?

If no one subscribed to netcfg bugs knows whether or not the above
is legal then we should ask in a wider forum, yes.
--
Thomas