telnet on local LAN question (progress?)

[Paul Allen Newell]

On 8/22/2011 9:51 PM, Tim wrote:
>
> Have a look at a virgin hosts file, and it'll be like this:
>
> cat /etc/hosts
> # Do not remove the following line, or various programs
> # that require network functionality will fail.
> 127.0.0.1  localhost.localdomain   localhost
> ::1        localhost6.localdomain6 localhost6
>
Tim:

I said I was ending the thread, but I went back through archives of my 
installs and found a sufficiently different factory-install of 
/etc/hosts that I wanted to post it for comment given your "bad idea to 
bodge (sic?) anything else into those two lines. I checked 3 machines 
and they are the same, so I submit only one:
+++
cat /etc/hosts
127.0.0.1    chalupa.localdomain    chalupa    localhost.localdomain    
localhost    localhost4
::1    chalupa.localdomain    chalupa    localhost6.localdomain6    
localhost6
+++

This was snapped after I had installed F14 and before I edited hosts to 
know about the other machines. No comment about "Do not remove" (that 
vanished a couple of releases ago if my memory is correct) and it makes 
sense that /etc/hosts would have both the machine name as defined during 
the install and the "generic" localhost.

You might be using "virgin" to imply an earlier state than my snapshot, 
but somehow that seems like you are looking at "pristine" before 
knowledge of the machine is available?

There is a small chance that my notes during install might be wrong, but 
once I figured out how to get network working under F9, I've been pretty 
careful to capture original of all files related (hosts and ifcfg-eth0) 
before modifying.

Cheers,
Paul