On Sunday 17 September 2006 05:22, Tim wrote: > On Sat, 2006-09-16 at 14:41 -0700, jdow wrote: > > NEVER change localhost as a name. > > I am feeling motivated to bugzilla that the useless "do not change the > first line" warning, that doesn't give no example, ought to be changed. > > This: > > # Do not remove the following line, or various programs > # that require network functionality will fail. > > Which may well appear above an already modified first line, is utterly > useless to those unfamiliar with the hosts file. It could be better > written as: > > # The first uncommented line of the hosts file should be precisely > # like this: 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost > > It would also be a good idea that even for standalone PCs (those not on > a LAN), that *another* non-127.0.0.1 line should be added for its own > hostname, by whatever automatic process usually stuffs up the local > loopback address line. It could be another 127. subnet address, or one > of the various private IP scheme addresses. > Adding the local hostname seems to be a Fedora thing, and I see no good reason for it. I would like to see the first line being the localhost line only. Where static IP has been set up the second line could, and I think should, be added to reflect that. If you BZ the problem, please report the # and I'll vote for it. Anne
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