remove localhost from /etc/hosts??

[Tim]

On Fri, 2010-01-22 at 18:27 -0500, Bill Davidsen wrote:
> You can drop the localhost.localdomain entry, don't drop localhost.

Does anything still need domain names with at least one dot in them?
Years ago I'd encountered some mail clients which wouldn't let you set
SMTP or POP server addresses without one, but I don't recall anything
else doing that.


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