The interaction with sudo is a very inconvenient, very visible symptom. Without getting into whether or not it's desirable for sudo to do the gethostbyname() lookup, we can say for certain that it is never the correct behavior for a configuration GUI used by the user to produce an incorrect /etc/hosts file. If gethostbyname() were removed from sudo, we would still have a broken /etc/hosts file, and there would still be bugs resulting from that.
-- [hardy] Manually Configuring Network Causes Massive, Unreversable, Failure https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/185209 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
