Re: apt: Uses bogus ftp password on ftp:// urls

To: john@dhh.gt.org
Cc: Philip Hands <phil@hands.com>, Florian Hinzmann <f.hinzmann@public.uni-hamburg.de>, Dan Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>, debian-devel@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: apt: Uses bogus ftp password on ftp:// urls
From: Rob Browning <rlb@cs.utexas.edu>
Date: 30 Jun 1998 17:10:25 -0500
Message-id: <[🔎] 87ogva1qy6.fsf@nevermore.csres.utexas.edu>
In-reply-to: john@dhh.gt.org's message of "30 Jun 1998 14:20:19 -0500"
References: <[🔎] 23847.899226030@hands.com> <[🔎] 874sx266j0.fsf@hasler.dhh>

john@dhh.gt.org writes:

> What does this get you that
> 
> 127.0.0.1	hasler.dhh	hasler	localhost
> 
> in /etc/hosts doesn't?

*This may just be FUD*, but...

As I recall, and I'm not at all *sure* about this, so don't put too
much stock in it, there were some programs that didn't like this
configuration.  Sendmail/fetchmail comes to mind, but I can't really
remember the details, and it was a long time ago.  Basically I got
something that worked and then just forgot about it.

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