Op 8 aug. 2013 17:49 schreef Tom H tomh0...@gmail.com het volgende:
The output below is from Debian Sid with libnss-myhostname installed [...]
[root@debdeb:/etc]# cat hostname
debdeb
[root@debdeb:/etc]# cat hosts
127.0.0.1 localhost
[root@debdeb:/etc]# getent hosts 127.0.1.1
192.168.1.250
On Mon, 5 Aug 2013 13:08:28 -0400, Thomas Hood wrote:
(I had an exchange of emails with Thomas off-list and he suggested that
I reply on-list.)
With the nsswitch configuration
hosts: files ... dns ... myhostname
myhostname resolves the system hostname if nothing else does so
first. So
On 05-08-13 19:08, Thomas Hood wrote:
Wouter Verhelst wrote:
The right way, in my opinion, is that /etc/hosts should
look like this:
127.0.0.1 localhost
127.0.0.1 hostname.domain hostname
Strictly speaking there should be no more than one line per
IP address, so that would be
In
Wouter Verhelst wou...@debian.org writes:
On 05-08-13 19:08, Thomas Hood wrote:
In that case 'hostname.domain' is the canonical name for alias
'localhost'.
Which is fine. localhost is *supposed* to be an alias, it is not a
canonical name (there are far too many machines called localhost for
On Wed, Aug 07, 2013 at 10:29:01AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
I think RFC 1912 is interesting here:
The localhost address is a special address which always refers to
the local host. It should contain the following line:
localhost. IN A 127.0.0.1
RFC 6761
Op 7 aug. 2013 10:33 schreef Wouter Verhelst wou...@debian.org het
volgende:
Historically, localhost has always been 127.0.0.1. It feels wrong to
change that, simply because localhost starts showing up in places it
was never meant to show up in.
To clarify, no one is proposing that 'localhost'
Sorry I'm a bit late contributing to this discussion.
Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote:
The eventual result[1] was that Debian nowadays ships
/etc/hosts like these per default:
127.0.0.1 localhost
127.0.1.1 host_name.domain_name host_name
As also described in the Debian reference[2].
That's
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