On 20150417_1730-0500, David Wright wrote: > Quoting Paul E Condon (pecon...@mesanetworks.net): > > I am coming to realize that the re-install, not upgrade, of Jessie > > from RC2 has done something that makes it ignore my /etc/hosts file > > and go its own way. I can't find the trick to make my desktop computer > > use the /etc/hosts that I have loaded onto it and to respond to > > messages from the two 'server' hosts whose demons try to query it. > > Yes, a re-install would change the host keys, hence the ssh warning. > > Has the IP number of your machine(s) changed? If so, your hosts > file may now be out-of-date (or the router needs to be told to > restore the old IP number). > > (By chance we both posted at about the same time.) > > Cheers, > David.
RC2 netinst created an /etc/hosts with only two lines: 127.0.0.1 localhost 127.0.1.1 big.lan.gnu big Big and lan.gnu are names that I gave it to use for local host and local lan. As part of my completing the config. I added the lines that had been in /etc/hosts before doing the netinst, and are in the /etc/hosts file on the other computers. And I remember from years of use, carefully preserving /etc/hosts during previous netinst episodes. At first I thought I had done something wrong because it wasn't working, but now I'm convinced something is definitely different. I have never before seen messages about 'no path to host' unless I had unplugged a cable, and never before messages about refusing a connection. The behovior is as if a new layer ot security has been introduced in order to protect against a new kind of threat, but with no announcement or how the user should deal with it, the threat, and it the countermeasure.. At this late date, I think this won't be resolved until after official release. Cheers, -- Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20150418023903.ga2...@big.lan.gnu
