On Oct 06, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org> wrote: > Because instead of doing this: > > 127.0.0.1 localost localhost.localdomain > > It was done like this: > > 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost > > Thus changing the canonical name of the loopback interface. PLEASE do not > do this unless you have *extremely* good reasons to do so. An untracked DNS Agreed. Another point is that it would be bad to have 127.0.0.1 resolve differently in /etc/hosts and DNS (we ship a 127.in-addr.arpa zone). -- ciao, Marco
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