Stephen Kitt wrote: > I may have an idea of what caused the problem, given the behaviour you > mention. When I installed network-manager, it dropped eth0 and didn’t bring > it back up (I’m attaching the logs); if it then tried to determine > whether /etc/hosts contained a valid definition for the hostname, it might > have decided that heffalump.sk2.org didn’t correspond to anything it knew > about... I haven’t looked at the code so this speculation may be completely > useless!
I quickly studied the code, and this is exactly what happened. When network-manager doesn't find an active IP for the hostname, it will add the hostname to the loopback address in /etc/hosts. You might actually call that a feature, so I'm a bit unsure what to do about this bug report. Cheers, Michael -- Why is it that all of the instruments seeking intelligent life in the universe are pointed away from Earth?
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