On Wednesday, 09/10/2008 at 11:18 EDT, Michael MacIsaac/Poughkeepsie/[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello list, > > On a SLES 10 SP2 system, it seems the last line in /etc/hosts is: > # tail -1 /etc/hosts > 127.0.0.2 gpok189.endicott.ibm.com gpok189 > > Where the DNS name of the machine is "gpok189.endicott.ibm.com". But the > IP address is not there. > > Why is "127.0.0.2" and not Linux's IP address there? Is this something > new in SP2? I don't recall seeing it in older versions of SLES. Thanks.
That smells like someone manually created it. 127.anything, not just 127.0.0.2, is localhost. Alan Altmark z/VM Development IBM Endicott ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
