please deactivate services by default!

Ralf Ertzinger fedora at camperquake.de
Sat Sep 27 09:35:48 UTC 2008


Hi.

On Thu, 25 Sep 2008 14:04:35 +0200, Matej Cepl wrote

> What was meant (I guess) is that if DNS is broken and there is no 
> localhost entry in /etc/hosts, user however naive will have 
> bigger problems than slow sendmail on start.

Is there any particular reason why the resolver does not know
about 127.0.0.1<->localhost by default? It should of course follow
the methods outlined in nsswitch.conf to get more specific results,
but localhost is pretty crucial for a working UNIX which has networking
cababilities.




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