According commit log this was done by purpose:

Revision 6292: "Change localhost into a fully qualified name[..]"

However this change causes applications/libraries to fail which try to
resolve "localhost" which is used quite often.

mirko


On Fri, 2009-10-16 at 11:11 +0800, Xiangfu Liu wrote:
> Hi list
> 
> seems there is a type in package/base-files/files/etc/hosts file
> there are a "." after "localhost"
> 
> --------
> 
> diff --git a/package/base-files/files/etc/hosts 
> b/package/base-files/files/etc/hosts
> index 8d9d14f..75721cd 100644
> --- a/package/base-files/files/etc/hosts
> +++ b/package/base-files/files/etc/hosts
> @@ -1 +1 @@
> -127.0.0.1 localhost.
> +127.0.0.1 localhost
> 
> 
> 




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