On Sun, 27 Dec 2009 14:22:53 -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > 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.
Details in <http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=316099>. I do wonder, however, why the system hostname has to appear in /etc/hosts at all? Programs that want to find it out can read /etc/hostname directly, after all. And wtf is 'localdomain' for, anyway? -- Sam Morris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
