telnet on local LAN question (progress?)

[Craig White]

On Thu, 2011-08-25 at 14:31 +0930, Tim wrote:
> Tim:
> >> No matter what anybody says, and despite the setup of Fedora doing
> >> it, it's a bad bad BAD idea to bodge *anything* else into those two
> >> local lines.  Sure, you can get away with it under *some*
> >> circumstances.  But you can run into a hell of a lot of pain under
> >> other circumstances.
> 
> Craig White:
> > I'm not a fan of it either but that is indeed the way things are done.
> > I'm sort of old school on this myself but Ubuntu does things
> > similarly...
> >  
> > 127.0.0.1       localhost
> > 127.0.1.1       srv2.azapple.com        srv2
> 
> Probably *less* of an issue, since they've not used 127.0.0.1.  Although
> it can behave the same, the names and numbers are different, and
> shouldn't resolve back to each other.  But if anything needs the machine
> name's IP to resolve to an IP that something else will find it at, then
> problems may still arise.
>
> > I sort of decided to stop fighting it and go with the flow. It works
> > fine.
> 
> I've always found it to be a problem with servers.  Mail servers being
> one of them.  It seems less of an issue with clients, and I've just let
> clients automatically set themselves up.
----
that IS my server and it uses postfix & cyrus-imapd - absolutely no
problems.

Craig


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