Re: where is /etc/hosts supposed to come from?

[Daniel Moerner <dmoerner@gmail.com>]

Hi,

On Sun, Dec 27, 2009 at 12:50 PM, Russell Coker <russell@coker.com.au> wrote:
> I've just done a debootstrap install of Lenny, and /etc/hosts doesn't exist.
> Where is /etc/hosts supposed to come from?  I think it should have something
> like the following (copied from an ancient Debian install).
>
> 127.0.0.1       localhost
>
> # The following lines are desirable for IPv6 capable hosts
> ::1     ip6-localhost ip6-loopback
> fe00::0 ip6-localnet
> ff00::0 ip6-mcastprefix
> ff02::1 ip6-allnodes
> ff02::2 ip6-allrouters
> ff02::3 ip6-allhosts

For debootstrapped installs, it's not automatically created by
anything. The recommended setup is almost the same as that, although
as Neil said you still need to add a hostname on to the first line.

See section D.3.4.4 of the installation manual. [1]

[1] http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/apds03.html.en#id3124776

Daniel