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Re: /etc/hosts: Two lines with the same IP address?



[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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