Hi, On Mon, Jun 07, 2004 at 05:22:15PM +0200, Thomas Hood wrote: > > 127.0.0.1 localhost pingo > > 10.10.0.17 pingo.miss-knife.net pingo > > On rereading the original message I realize that I overlooked the most > important fact. The hostname, 'pingo', appears on two lines in the > /etc/hosts file. The presence of 'pingo' on the 127.0.0.1 line causes > 'localhost' to be pingo's canonical hostname whereas (I take it) the > user wants 'pingo.miss-knife.net' to be pingo's canonical hostname. > Pierre Machard: Have I got that right?
Yes, you did.
> I can think of a couple of different ways of solving this problem.
> The first is to eliminate 'pingo' from the 127.0.0.1 line if and
> only if 'pingo' appears on some other line.
That's what I commited to the subversion tree, but apparently Joshua
did not integrate this change.
> A second approach to solving the problem is to have two separate
> 127.0.0.1 lines, one of them at the very end. It acts as a default
> canonical hostname specifier for the machine. Experiment shows that
> this gives the Right behavior; however I am not sure that it is legal
> for one IP address to appear on more than one line in /etc/hosts.
It's very difficult to find info about that.
> # /etc/init.d/dnsmasq restart
> # cat /etc/hosts
> 127.0.0.1 localhost
> 10.10.0.17 pingo.miss-knife.net pingo
> 127.0.0.1 pingo
> # hostname
> pingo
> # hostname --fqdn
> pingo.miss-knife.net
> # # Note that dnsmasq (which looks in /etc/hosts) is running
> # host pingo
> pingo has address 127.0.0.1
> pingo has address 10.10.0.17
> # host 127.0.0.1
> 1.0.0.127.in-addr.arpa domain name pointer localhost.
> 1.0.0.127.in-addr.arpa domain name pointer pingo.
> # vi /etc/hosts
> # /etc/init.d/dnsmasq restart
> # cat /etc/hosts
> 127.0.0.1 localhost
> 127.0.0.1 pingo
> # hostname --fqdn
> pingo
> # host pingo
> pingo has address 127.0.0.1
> # host 127.0.0.1
> 1.0.0.127.in-addr.arpa domain name pointer localhost.
> 1.0.0.127.in-addr.arpa domain name pointer pingo.
Somehow interesting, maybe we should ask to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ?
Cheers,
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