** Changed in: gnome-system-tools (Ubuntu)
Status: Incomplete => Invalid
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/24874
Title:
[network-admin] aliases hostname to 127.0.0.1 unconditionally
Status in The Gnome System Tools:
Won't Fix
Status in “gnome-system-tools” package in Ubuntu:
Invalid
Bug description:
I want to use my laptop as a server in a couple of different locations. In
each
of these locations, it gets a different IP address and knows a different set
of
static hosts, but has the same hostname. The services I run (a certain
implementation of JavaSpaces) rely on the hostname, and it being aliased to
the
network IP address.
So, the most natural thing for me to do is define the right locations, and
just
switch between them using network-admin. This results in errors, because
network-admin aliases hostname to 127.0.0.1 unconditionally -- Some of the
services send the hostname's IP address to clients for further communication,
and 127.0.0.1 is not the right address.
I've researched enough (and can read enough Perl) to see that the culprit code
is in network.pl, circa line 4000 -- the function
gst_network_ensure_loopback_statichost. I don't know enough Perl to fix it.
What I'd like to see is: if the hostname is already defined as a static host,
don't add it to the loopback interface.
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