[K12OSN] help with /etc/hosts file and 127.0.0.1
Gary Frederick
gary.frederick at jsoft.com
Wed Jul 20 22:51:04 UTC 2005
I am working with someone and ran into 'issues' with my /etc/hosts on
k12ltsp. He said "having the hostname return a name that maps to
127.0.0.1 is trouble."
I have a pretty plain k12ltsp system. The /etc/hosts file includes
127.0.0.1 a.jsoft.com a localhost.localdomain localhost b.jsoft.com
a.jsoft.com is the hostname
# hostname
a.jsoft.com
He commented out all the 127.0.0.1 line and put a.jsoft.com and
b.jsoft.com in at the bottom associated to their 192.168.1.x address
The comment in /etc/hosts suggests it was a BAD idea to remove the line?
Soooo
1: is having the hostname return a name that maps to 127.0.0.1 trouble?
2: is removing 127.0.0.1 a bad idea?
any and all details that will help me understand are much appreciated.
sigh
Gary
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