Loopback question???

[Mike Becker]

On Tue, 2004-01-13 at 12:56, Mike Becker wrote:
> Guys?
> 
> I ask this question only because it is NOT in /etc/hosts of my FC1
> system -- is the loopback line in /etc/hosts still needed in FC1???  The
> line I'm referring to is:
> 
> 127.0.0.1       localhost.localdomain   localhost
> 
> Everything I read states this line is mandatory in Red Hat Linux 9, that
> if this line is missing in /etc/hosts it should be added, and, indeed,
> it is there in my RHL9 box but here in FC1, the line is missing. So too
> on my friend's FC1 system.  Since FC1 is RHL9-based, I have added to the
> /etc/hosts script.  
> 
> Did I do wrong by adding this to /etc/hosts in my FC1 box?  Is this
> loopback address embedded elsewhere and so no longer located in
> /etc/hosts?
> 
> Any and all help will be greatly appreciated...

Thanks for all of your input, guys, it is greatly appreciated!  But I
wonder how/why it had gone missing in the first place???
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