Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1196 mails)

["Carlos E. R." <robin.listas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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On 2012-04-01 22:53, lynn wrote:
> El 01/04/12 22:35, Carlos E. R. escribió:

> > But "127.0.1.1" is your own localhost. The entire 127 network is your
> > localhost, always, not another machine. Tri pinging, it works.
> I have three entries in /etc/hosts on each Linux client:
> 127.0.0.1 localhost
> 127.0.1.1 host.domain host
> 192.168.1.3 server.domain server
>
> with /etc/HOSTNAME
> containing
>  host
> only
>
> Without the 127.0.1.1, hostname -f does not work and not much else does
> either.

But I don't have any entry for 127.0.1.1 and hostname -f works fine.
If you need an entry for that IP in the DNS, you can write it, it is fixed
because it is always localhost, by definition.

127.*.*.* == localhost


> An alternative is to give the clients a fixed IP and use that instead of
> the 127.0.1.1. But if the windows clients can use dhcp, why can't our
> openSUSE clients use it from the same server?

You can not assign 127.0.1.1 to any client, that will not work.

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Cheers / Saludos,

                Carlos E. R.
                (from 11.4 x86_64 "Celadon" at Telcontar)
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