Re: localhost.localdomain

[Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>]

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.

I've never seen the dumb localhost.localdomain thing help either, though.
INN isn't affected by default but is affected in a few misconfigurations
that are exacerbated by this.

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Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>