An amazing variety of things are keyed off an /etc/hosts entry in Solaris
(including network interface configuration, if memory serves). This man
speaks the truth.
However, I put it to you, world, that if this has only popped up on Sun
boxes, a better solution might be to quietly change solar
I noticed a potential problem that results from the use of the
gethostbyXXX functions. We have a small group of Sun file servers that
we want to monitor with ganglia. The problem originates from having an
/etc/hosts file that includes an entry for your local host that has both
the short and fqdn
