On Fri, 2005-10-14 at 10:47 +0200, Thomas Hood wrote: > OK, I have modified netcfg so that it writes > > 127.0.0.1 localhost > > to /etc/hosts. > > >From now on let's consider at least the following two phenomena to be > bugs: > > * The application expects to be able to resolve 'localhost.localdomain' > to an IP address. > * The application breaks if 'localhost.localdomain' is included on the > 127.0.0.1 line in /etc/hosts.
Fantastic! Might I add that it is *not* a bug for an application to expect resolution of 127.0.0.1 to return localhost? That is, localhost shall precede any other aliases in /etc/hosts. Again, thank you. Attention to detail is quite important; in this case detail is the location and/or existence of a mere 21 bytes. -Jeff -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]