Re: /etc/hosts strange

[Erik Steffl <steffl@bigfoot.com>]

Joel Franco Guzmán wrote:
> 
> Hi guys,
> 
>         plz, i have troubles with the hosts file.
>         it says:
> 
> 127.0.0.1       thor    localhost
> 
>         i think it is not correct, bcoz the "thor" name is not the
> loopback: it's a real ip. i had troubles mounting nfs filesystem by trying
> mount thor:/XXX/XX ./tmp in my own machine, bcoz the /etc/exports allow
> just the 192.168.1.X ip series.
> 
>         i think it is a bug. Can anyone fix me or is it a real bug?

  it's hard to tell. it makes certain sense to have it like that. I
think it would be better to allow 127.0.0.1 in exports (or use thor
instead of 192.168.1.X in /etc/exports)

	erik