On Thu, 2007-09-27 at 09:59 -0400, Harry Hoffman wrote:
Hi,
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
But breaks miserably in other situations when you wanto to resolve the
ip address of your machine. A typical example is kerberos and winbindd
(also using kerberos).
Am I remembering correctly, in terms of how I believe it used to be?
If
so, anyone know why it changed?
Breaks stuff.
Simo.