Mark, > 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 Interesting - thanks for the info.
We are seeing an issue with an app we are developing and question whether this 127.0.0.2 field in /etc/hosts is causing a problem. A colleague "googled" around and found that this also "bites" DB2 also. See http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/db2luw/v9/topic/com.ibm.db2.udb.pd.doc/doc/c0025249.htm So this should be a head's up for those with SLES 10 SP2! I can see how SuSE/Novell can argue that it is a valid value (i.e. "working as designed"), but if it affects important applications such as SAP and DB2, I can see how it might be viewed as a bug by the customer. "Mike MacIsaac" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (845) 433-7061 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
