On Sat, 29.05.10 09:33, Joachim Breitner ([email protected]) wrote: > Dear Christoph, Dear Lennart, > > Am Samstag, den 29.05.2010, 00:45 +0200 schrieb Christoph Anton > Mitterer: > > May I suggest to map to 127.0.1.1 for IPv4 instead of 127.0.0.2. > > > > This would be more consistent what Debian does per default in > > /etc/hosts. > > > > See also the Debian Reference Manual at: > > http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/reference/ch05.en.html#_the_hostname_resolution > > thanks for the suggestion, Christoph. I’m replying to Lennart, the > original author of nss-myhostname: Do you see and problem with making > the default 127.0.1.1 on Debian? Do you mind if your software diverges > in Debian somewhat?
Hmm, I see no reason why 127.0.0.2 should be a better choice than 127.0.1.1, or vice versa. Can you come up with a reason? Given that one is as good as the other 127.0.0.2 looks a bit more straighforward to me, and I think that generally docs should be fixed to follow what the code does, not the other way round, so I'd probably vote for changing your manual, and keep the code in place. That said, I think this is really a minor issue, and I think it wouldn't be really that bad if debian would deviate here from the rest of the world. So go ahead with 127.0.1.1 if you want to and really don't want to fix the documentation instead. You have my blessing that that is OK. On top of that, if you can make up a good reason I'd be willing to change the upstream to 127.0.1.1, btw. So, convince me! Lennart -- Lennart Poettering Red Hat, Inc. lennart [at] poettering [dot] net http://0pointer.net/lennart/ GnuPG 0x1A015CC4 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
