resolving localhost
GV
kpkp at gmx.net
Mon Nov 8 16:25:12 UTC 2004
yep. This did the trick!
Thanks all of you for your support.
On Mon, 2004-11-08 at 14:49, Roger Grosswiler wrote:
> This issue has discussed many times and showed up many results.
>
> my /etc/hosts is looking like this:
>
> 127.0.0.1 link link.gwch.net localhost
>
> this means:
> loopback-Interface host host.domain alias for the lo-interface.
>
> it is important to understand, that the last is an alias for your localhostis absolutely needed, if you don't have
> this anymore on this line, your system will fail to resolve localhost.
>
> i do not need an entry, as i have my own dns-server running with dhcp and all resolv.conf's are maintained by dhcp
> either....so i have always the right dns-server for my zones. and dhclient on my clients sends [host] to my
> dns-server.
>
> HTH
> Roger
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