Re: localhost in /etc/hosts
Michelle Konzack wrote:
Am 2006-11-13 02:07:52, schrieb David Jardine:
To muddy the water a little more, I have
127.0.0.1 quash localhost loopback
This is definitivly wrong!
An /etc/hosts file can have only 3 fields plus comment.
It should be
127.0.0.1 localhost localhost # Localhost
IP.OF.THE.SYSTEM <fqdn> <hostname> # My Computer
What you write disagrees with my man page:
This manual page describes the format of the /etc/hosts
file. This
file is a simple text file that associates IP addresses with
host-
names, one line per IP address. For each host a single line
should be
present with the following information:
IP_address canonical_hostname aliases
Fields of the entry are separated by any number of blanks
and/or tab
characters. Text from a "#" character until the end of the
line is a
comment, and is ignored.
AIUI, any number of fields may be present. Here is my hosts entry for my
machine:
127.0.0.1 Presario-1 localhost.localdomain localhost
My machine name is "Presario-1", the string "localhost.localdomain" can
be just about anything, and one of the aliases needs to be "localhost"
or lots of bad things can happen. One could just as well have
127.0.0.1 FreddyPoo FreddyPoo.com localhost Freddy Barney
If I read it aright, then the machine name would be FreddyPoo, with
aliases localhost, Freddy, and Barney. The only important fields
are the 127.0.0.1, and the localhost alias. The domain entry and other
aliases are optional. A minimal workable entry is
127.0.0.1 localhost
I'm sure others will correct me if I'm wrong :-)
Mike
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