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Re: localhost.localdomain



On Friday 14 October 2005 02:47, Thomas Hood wrote:
> OK, I have modified netcfg so that it writes
>
>     127.0.0.1	localhost
>
> to /etc/hosts.

Thank you! Yay for purging ugly non-standardness! =)

> From now on let's consider at least the following two phenomena to be
> bugs:
>
> * The application expects to be able to resolve 'localhost.localdomain'
>   to an IP address.
> * The application breaks if 'localhost.localdomain' is included on the
>   127.0.0.1 line in /etc/hosts.

Yes, I totally agree here. =)

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