David.Comay at Sun.COM wrote:
>> Bug 4049 has an entry from Dave Miner which states that "The fix for bug
>> 1040 unfortunately lost the fix for bug 496,..."
>>
>> The changeset for bug 496 contains more changes then seems to be
>> required to fix bug 4049.
>>
>> My understanding is to fix bug 4049 what needs to be done is to change
>> the entry in /etc/inet/hosts
>>
>> From:
>>
>> 127.0.0.1 localhost loghost <hostname>
>>
>> To:
>>
>> 127.0.0.1 <hostname> loghost <hostname>.local
> 
> I'm certain that you don't want to lose the "localhost" there.  Perhaps
> it should be
> 
>     127.0.0.1    <hostname> <hostname>.local localhost loghost
> 

Correct.

> I also think the same entry should be written for the IPv6-equivalent
> 
>     ::1    <hostname> <hostname>.local localhost loghost
> 

That would be more correct, I guess.

Dave

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