-----Forwarded Message----- From: Petter Reinholdtsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: /etc/hosts: Two lines with the same IP address? Date: Tue, 08 Jun 2004 17:31:04 +0200
[Steve Langasek] > See other responses for the fix for this; but, er, why would you want > the canonical name for 127.0.0.1 to be anything other than "localhost" > anyway? That just invites confusion, IMHO. Not only that. It break ssh X forwarding because the xauth key will be wrong. IP 127.0.0.1 should only map to localhost, and not to the hostname if the host is connected to the net. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
