One reason for resolving the system hostname to 127.0.1.1 in an NSS
service is that this allows us to list that service last on the "hosts:"
line in /etc/nsswitch.conf, thus making 127.0.1.1 the resolved address
of last resort, coming after addresses resolved via /etc/hosts and/or DNS.
Please see http://lists.debian.org/debian-glibc/2005/06/msg00173.html
for one of the earlier discussions about this issue.
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