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

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Subject: Re: /etc/hosts: Two lines with the same IP address?
From: Petter Reinholdtsen <pere@hungry.com>
Date: Tue, 8 Jun 2004 18:37:48 +0200
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[Greg Folkert]
> No, it will not.

Strange.  I've seen X forwarding problems just because of this.
RedHat inserts the hostname in /etc/hosts as one of the names for
127.0.0.1, and this make X forwarding over SSH fail.  Correcting
/etc/hosts fixes the problem.

> Make sure you understand the infrastructure before you answer others.

Such big words.  Hope you are able to back them up. :)

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