Hi, On Sun, Nov 12, 2006 at 11:28:45PM +0200, Hans du Plooy wrote: > Hi guys, > > Just wondering, which is correct: > > 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost > > or > > 127.0.0.1 localhost > > The linux networking howto > (http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/NET3-4-HOWTO-5.html) muddies the water even > more: > > 127.0.0.1 localhost loopback > > I was always under the impression the first is the proper way. I seem > to be having issues with resovling localhost for some web applications > on my Sarge server (127.0.0.1 localhost) but when I fix the hosts file, > it works, but breaks other things (like mysql usernames). Since I did not see pointers to the official history discussion in the Debian weekly news, let me point you all to: http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/2005/43/ This was a big deal for developers too. -------------------- | Default local Hostname. Christoph Haas [18]discovered that the local | hostname after the installation defaults to localhost.localdomain | instead of just localhost. Joey Hess [19]explained that the | configuration has already been changed after the sarge release in | reaction to Bug#[20]247734. | | 18. http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2005/09/msg01063.html | 19. http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2005/10/msg00254.html | 20. http://bugs.debian.org/247734 ------------------- I hope this gives you some hints behind this situation. Osamu
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