Re: exim, local resolver, host name lookups and IPv6
On Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 12:13:36PM +0600, Alexander E. Patrakov wrote:
> Marc Haber wrote:
>> In some cases, exim still looks up its IP address when a listening
>> daemon starts up. This is why the Debian installer configures
>> 127.0.1.1 (not 127.0.0.1) for the local hostname on installation,
>> yielding /etc/hosts files like
>>
>> 127.0.0.1 localhost
>> 127.0.1.1 myfoo.localdomain myfoo
> <snip>
>> This being said, I consider the entire 127.0.1.1 business a horrible
>> hack which is one of the most ugly things I have ever seen. Do we have
>> a chance to implement this in a more cleaner way, or is it still the
>> way to go for the distribution, where we don't know zilch about the
>> environment where an installed system is going to be used?
> I second this request.
Oh yes, by all means, let's flip-flop the /etc/hosts implementation back and
forth because people /second/ it, without ever bothering to understand the
reasons that made this necessary.
> Just a data point: this 127.0.1.1 setup breaks the "vde2" package (namely,
> its slirp-based part) if a local DNS server that listens on 127.0.0.1 only
> (e.g., pdnsd) is used.
Then vde2 has broken assumptions and should be fixed.
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