On Sat, Mar 12, 2016 at 04:57:04PM +0100, hans wrote: > Has the attitude towards /etc/hosts changed again? > After a fresh install of current/i386, > > 127.0.0.1 localhost > ::1 localhost > 192.168.22.4 www.stare.cz www > > The first two I would expect. > The last one was assigned to me via DHCP during install; > I am changing the network configuration now (to another, > static IP address), and removing it from /etc/hosts; > but it's easy to have a stale DHCP address > assigned during install left in /etc/hosts. > > I believe it was discussed on the list before, > and the decision was not to do this. > Has the rationale changed? > > Jan
You're probably referring to this commit from 2 years ago and since then nothing changed with respect to adding static entries to /etc/hosts. revision 1.682 date: 2013/07/21 22:06:51; author: halex; state: Exp; lines: +1 -6; stop adding static entries to /etc/hosts for dynamic ip addresses "do it NOW" deraadt@
