Bug#916446: netcfg: please statically define ip4-localhost (mirroring ip6-localhost)
Package: netcfg
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch
Patch at https://salsa.debian.org/installer-team/netcfg/merge_requests/4
This mirrors the corresponding static hostname that is defined for
IPv6:
> # The following lines are desirable for IPv6 capable hosts
> ::1 localhost ip6-localhost ip6-loopback
These lines exist because there are some situations where you can only
conveniently specify a hostname but you wish to force a particular protocol.
For the same reason "ip4-localhost" is useful.
I was inspired to request this and write the patch because I hit this exact
situation with some software I am debugging.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 9.5
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (990, 'stable'), (500, 'stable-debug'), (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 4.17.0-0.bpo.1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_GB:en (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
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