On Thu, 27 Sep 2007 10:10:42 -0400
Simo Sorce <ssorce(a)redhat.com> wrote:
On Thu, 2007-09-27 at 10:02 -0400, David Cantrell wrote:
> On Thu, 27 Sep 2007 09:59:16 -0400
> Harry Hoffman <hhoffman(a)ip-solutions.net> wrote:
>
> > So, /etc/hosts comes setup by default (i.e. after kickstart install)
> >
> > # Do not remove the following line, or various programs
> > # that require network functionality will fail.
> > 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost
> >
> > I'm fairly certain to not too long ago (redhat-9 perhaps) the hostname
> > of the system was also added to the localhost entry:
> >
> > 127.0.0.1
my.host.com my localhost.localdomain localhost
> >
> >
> > This had the distinct advantage that when apps (i.e. yum-updatesd) sent
> > mail from the system via a mail host then address would appear as:
> > root(a)my.host.com instead of root(a)localhost.com
> >
> > Am I remembering correctly, in terms of how I believe it used to be? If
> > so, anyone know why it changed?
>
>
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=253979
>
> Fixed in rawhide.
>
> Why it changed...don't know, but I'll take the blame since I'm
responsible for a lot of the network gutting and rewriting in anaconda. Most likely a
mistake on my part.
Please, PLEASE, reconsider.
I've long hated this thing of assigning the hostname to 127.0.0.1, it
always breaks when using kerberos/winbindd as the hostname needs to
reflect the public facing ip.
I personally think that Gnome is at fault here, is there any smarter way
to at least change the hostname mappingi hosts when the main network
interface gets an IP?
OK, now this is making sense as to why it changed before. It's incorrect.
So here we are where a certain group of people want the hostname added to the 127.0.0.1
line and another group that doesn't. I tend to agree with the latter, but I would
rather explore this post F-8 than now. Removing it, yet again, in rawhide after F-8 is
released and any bugs that get opened we determine the program that's at fault and
reassign the bug to that package. It'll be annoying to users, but I think it's
best to not have the hostname on the 127.0.0.1 line.
--
David Cantrell <dcantrell(a)redhat.com>
Red Hat / Westford, MA