/etc/hosts + resolvconf (was Re: associating names and addresses)

[Chris Bannister <mockingbird@earthlight.co.nz>]

On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 09:21:22AM -0700, peasthope@shaw.ca wrote:
> Douglas & anyone else interested,
> 
> At Sun, 16 Mar 2008 20:12:44 -0400 Douglas Tutty wrote,
> >> # /etc/hosts file
> >> 127.0.0.1       peasthope.yi.org        joule   localhost
> >                  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> >    this should be: localhost.localdomain	localhost
> >
> >if you don't own peasthope.yi.org, then I wouldn't use it even locally.

Mmmm, ... I have:

	root@box:~# less /etc/hosts
	127.0.0.1       box localhost

> Conclusion
> Well now I see that the correct solution to 
> the original problem was to leave /etc/hosts 
> with the line 
> 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost
> and install resolvconf.  Unfortunately, this 
> was not recognized at the time and the message 
> from Xfce was misleading.

	root@box:~# apt-cache policy resolvconf
	resolvconf:
	  Installed: (none)
	[..]

So thats ok? But If resolvconf is installed then /etc/hosts should be:

	127.0.0.1       localhost.localdomain localhost

Is that correct?

-- 
Chris.
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