Nope. Fresh installl of 10 sp2 looks like that here too.
Marcy "This message may contain confidential and/or privileged information. If you are not the addressee or authorized to receive this for the addressee, you must not use, copy, disclose, or take any action based on this message or any information herein. If you have received this message in error, please advise the sender immediately by reply e-mail and delete this message. Thank you for your cooperation." -----Original Message----- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Alan Altmark Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2008 11:58 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [LINUX-390] 127.0.0.2 in /etc/hosts? 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
