On Tue, Nov 21, 2006 at 07:51:49PM -0500, Douglas Tutty wrote: > On Wed, Nov 22, 2006 at 12:17:03AM +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > On 2006-11-21 15:49:07 +0100, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: > > > Indeed your hosts.allow probably wasn't complete. In addition to > > localhost, you should have added the hostname. Or perhaps the IP > > address 127.0.0.1. > > > > > there often is no FQDN, as there is often no IP. > > > > The machine should always have a FQDN, though it may be resolved > > locally only (in particular if your machine is not on a network). > > Otherwise you'll have problems with software that requests it (I > > don't think there's another portable way to fully identify the > > machine). > > I've had stand-alone (aka secure) boxes called localhost, with only the > standard 127.0.0.1 /etc/hosts entry. Never had a problem.
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