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regarding debian-reference: 127.0.1.1 oddity rationale
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Package: debian-reference
Version: 2.47
Severity: normal
This is about: 5.1.2. The hostname resolution
I know some people dislike this setting but 127.0.1.1 IP address but it is
still in the /etc/hosts file. I think its architect was Thomas Hood.
http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2005/06/msg00938.html
He wrote in older version of Debian reference 10.4 as the following.
| Some software (e.g., GNOME) expects the system hostname to be resolvable
| to an IP address with a canonical fully qualified domain name. This is
| really improper because system hostnames and domain names are two very
| different things; but there you have it. In order to support that
| software, it is necessary to ensure that the system hostname can be
| resolved. Most often this is done by putting a line in /etc/hosts
| containing some IP address and the system hostname. If your system has a
| permanent IP address then use that; otherwise use the address 127.0.1.1.
|
| 127.0.0.1 localhost
| 127.0.1.1 uranus
I also found:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-system-tools/+bug/72341
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-desktop/+bug/94048
Also discusiion around:
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-users/2007-August/120811.html
So this seems to be correct configuration carefully crafter after
discussion despite some web pages states this as bug.
When I updated everything around here, I basically rewote thing and this
fact was dropped accidentalyin the current verion.
Oh, UBUNTU page is also interesting:
https://help.ubuntu.com/10.04/serverguide/C/network-configuration.html
When updating this section on DR, this needs to be refefenced.
When adding this content, we may need to point to the following fact:
| If someone wish to convert host to fixed IP after installing under DHCP
| to get such configuration,
| * one must update /etc/network/interfaces for static IP
| * one must replace 127.0.1.1 line with the real
| IP address match with the real DNS resolvable registered
| host name such as:
|
| 64.35.25.109 realhostname.example.com realhostname
Osamu
-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 3.1.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages debian-reference depends on:
ii debian-reference-en 2.47
Versions of packages debian-reference recommends:
ii debian-reference-fr 2.47
ii debian-reference-it 2.47
ii debian-reference-ja 2.47
ii debian-reference-pt 2.47
debian-reference suggests no packages.
-- no debconf information
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Hi,
Closing.
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