Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (882 mails)

[John Andersen <jsamyth@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 12/30/2010 2:45 PM, David C. Rankin wrote:
> Guys,
>
>       What is the proper entry for 127.0.0.1 in /etc/hosts? I have seen 
> discussion
> that 127.0.0.2 is deprecated so that leaves a problem with dnsdomainname if 
> you
> remove the 127.0.0.2 entry and leave the 127.0.0.1 entry as:
>
> 127.0.0.1       localhost.localdomain   localhost yourRealHostname
>
>       In this situation, dnsdomainname resolves to localdomain:
>
> 15:39 phoenix:~> dnsdomainname
> localdomain
>
>       Setting the entry as:
>
> 127.0.0.1       localhost.youReadDomainName.com   localhost yourRealHostname
>
> fixes the return of dnsdomainname, but does not having localdomain cause
> problems as well? What say the gurus?

I thought averything 127.x.x.x pointed to localhost.
Did I miss a memo?


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