On Sunday 17 September 2006 00:27, Tim wrote: >Tim: >>> 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost >>> >>> For some reason, Fedora likes to put the machine name into the >>> 127.0.0.1 line, sometimes, despite all the problems that it can cause. > >jdow: >> Did you do something silly like modify /etc/sysconfig/network? What >> does it currently say? It should say: >> NETWORKING=yes >> HOSTNAME=localhost.localdomain >> >> If not you did something to modify it and you have localhost being >> renamed. Otherwise you may have nasty little spirits camping out >> digitally on your machine. > >Nup, nothing like that. I've seen quite a few machines that have the >machine name inserted there, by the routines that configure the network >settings for you on a freshly installed machine. > >Usually, the first time around, your machine is localhost.localdomain, >but sometimes if you've entered a hostname, even if you have a NIC, the >hostname is inserted into the local loopback address details. Usually, >*before* the localhost.localdomain details (of all the worst places to >do so). And if that occurs, it needs BZ'd with all due haste, and the author of such miss-guided code s/b sent to clean the agean stables as pennance. With orders to make them spotless. That way he won't have time to perpetrate any more such tomfoolery... >-- >(Currently running FC4, occasionally trying FC5.) > >Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. >I read messages from the public lists. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2006 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
