On Sun, Dec 27, 2009 at 01:25:55PM -0800, Daniel Moerner wrote: > On Sun, Dec 27, 2009 at 12:50 PM, Russell Coker <russ...@coker.com.au> wrote: > > I've just done a debootstrap install of Lenny, and /etc/hosts doesn't exist. > > Where is /etc/hosts supposed to come from? I think it should have something > > like the following (copied from an ancient Debian install).
> > 127.0.0.1 localhost > > # The following lines are desirable for IPv6 capable hosts > > ::1 ip6-localhost ip6-loopback > > fe00::0 ip6-localnet > > ff00::0 ip6-mcastprefix > > ff02::1 ip6-allnodes > > ff02::2 ip6-allrouters > > ff02::3 ip6-allhosts > For debootstrapped installs, it's not automatically created by > anything. The recommended setup is almost the same as that, although > as Neil said you still need to add a hostname on to the first line. No, the hostname should be set on a *separate* line, mapped to 127.0.1.1, as we've been doing for years now. Setting an equivalence between localhost and the hostname causes all manner of problems due to hostname canonicalization. > [1] http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/apds03.html.en#id3124776 Well, ugh, that needs corrected. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ slanga...@ubuntu.com vor...@debian.org
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