Bug#247734: [Fwd: Re: /etc/hosts: Two lines with the same IP address?]
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From: Petter Reinholdtsen <pere@hungry.com>
To: debian-devel@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: /etc/hosts: Two lines with the same IP address?
Date: Tue, 08 Jun 2004 17:31:04 +0200
[Steve Langasek]
> See other responses for the fix for this; but, er, why would you want
> the canonical name for 127.0.0.1 to be anything other than "localhost"
> anyway? That just invites confusion, IMHO.
Not only that. It break ssh X forwarding because the xauth key will
be wrong.
IP 127.0.0.1 should only map to localhost, and not to the hostname if
the host is connected to the net.
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