Re: [suse-autoinstall] multiple ethernet interfaces causes duplicate host records in the /etc/hosts file?

22 Apr 2005


      On Thu, Apr 21, 2005 at 03:45:04PM -0700, deet wrote:
...
<dns>
        <domain>atl.company.com</domain>
        <hostname>app01</hostname>
        <nameservers config:type="list">
        <nameserver>172.17.9.25</nameserver>
        </nameservers>
        <searchlist config:type="list">
          <search>atl.company.com</search>
        </searchlist>
      </dns>
<interfaces config:type="list">
        <interface>
          <bootproto>static</bootproto>
          <device>eth0</device>
 <startmode>onboot</startmode>
         <broadcast>172.17.177.255</broadcast>
         <netmask>255.255.255.0</netmask>
          <ipaddr>172.17.177.54</ipaddr>
        </interface>
        <interface>
          <bootproto>static</bootproto>
          <device>eth1</device>
          <startmode>onboot</startmode>
         <broadcast>10.170.3.255</broadcast>
         <netmask>255.255.255.0</netmask>
          <ipaddr>10.170.3.21</ipaddr>
        </interface>
      </interfaces>
The resulting hosts file has these 2 entries.
10.170.3.21     app01.atl.company.com
172.17.177.54   app01.atl.company.com app01
The question is.  Why is the line "10.170.3.21    
app01.atl.company.com" being added  to the /etc/hosts file?   If I
cannot stop this from occuring can I at least control the name that
gets associated with the 2nd interface so I might end up with
10.170.3.21     eth1-app01.atl.company.com
Having a global name that is applied to all interfaces is a
"feature" of the current setup. It is not specific to
autoinstallation.  I plan to fix it in the next release. You can use
a post script to edit the host file.

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