Re: localhost.localdomain

[Roger Leigh <rleigh@whinlatter.ukfsn.org>]

Christoph Haas <haas@debian.org> writes:

> That's exactly the explanation what I was looking for. I incorrectly
> assumed that more than just MySQL is affected. But it appears like other
> services do not care about the reverse resolution of 127.0.0.1.

This is also the case for CUPS, but is now fixed upstream.  See

http://www.cups.org/str.php?L989+P0+S1+C0+I0+E0+Qrleigh.debian

The sad thing is, this is special cased primarily because of broken
/etc/hosts files preventing reverse name lookups...


Regards,
Roger

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