On Sun, 2008-10-05 at 14:43 -0700, Fred Silsbee wrote: > 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost localhost The above has an error, albeit one that shouldn't have any adverse consequences. There's no reason that localhost should be written twice. This seems to be some bug introduced by Fedora 9. The following is all that's needed: 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost This can also be a problem, a second local loopback line: > 127.0.0.1 abc777 Firstly, it's been problematic, for a long time, to jam host names into the local loopback addresses line. Hostnames should really be applied to addresses that can be reached by other devices on the LAN, e.g. if your LAN IP is 192.168.1.12, then that's the IP that should be associated with your hostname. Though, if you are going to associate a hostname with the loopback addresses, e.g. because you have a PC that is sometimes completely disconnected, then it should be sufficient to just prepend it to the first line. e.g. 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost abc777 -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -r 2.6.26.5-45.fc9.i686 Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
