Bug#473828: hosts: Unreasonable impact of misconfigured /etc/hosts file

[Steve Greenland <steveg@moregruel.net>]

On 01-Apr-08, 17:22 (CDT), Ulrik Sverdrup <ulrik.sverdrup@gmail.com> wrote: 
> 
> When I encountered this, described briefly but a bit more in #473827,
> I didn't see anything as long as I had network/internet access.
> However, when totally offline, the bug triggered. Thus you could try
> to pull out the network cable and try again. I'll have to come up with
> a practical restore method before trying to reproduce it myself
> though.

Pulling the cable on eth0: no change - error message, but sudo works

Trying 'ifdown lo': now sudo has wait for a timeout of some sort, but
eventually it still printed error, and worked.

(All still with no resolv.conf or hostname file, and hosts with no IPv4
info.)

Steve
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