Michael MacIsaac wrote: > Alan, > >> That smells like someone manually created it. 127.anything, not just >> 127.0.0.2, is localhost. > > No. I just reinstalled SLES 10 SP2 to test. On the "Hostname and Domain > Name" panel in the second half of the install I uncheck "Change Hostname > via DHCP" and leave "Write Hostname to /etc/hosts" checked. > > Same /etc/hosts on the new system: > # tail -1 /etc/hosts > 127.0.0.2 gpok149.endicott.ibm.com gpok149 >
This causes problems with applications like SAP, which make reverse and forward lookups to ensure it "understands" the network (security/sanity check maybe?). It expects the IP to be on one of the interfaces it is using for communication with other App Servers. For SAP the simple fix is just to comment the line out of /etc/hosts and fallback to DNS lookups. mark ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
