I don't know if there is any actual standard for /etc/hosts entries. There is also no guarantee that /etc/hosts will have an entry for localhost, or the hostname of the system.
-----Original Message----- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Alan Altmark Sent: Friday, September 12, 2008 2:03 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: 127.0.0.2 in /etc/hosts? On Thursday, 09/11/2008 at 10:39 EDT, Michael MacIsaac/Poughkeepsie/[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 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. I can't see how they can argue that at all. While it wasn't manually added by the user, it still smells of some special one-off for some strange app that is binding to 127.0.0.2 (a hidden web server?). Adding the hostname to /etc/hosts allows the traditional daemon reverse-lookup to work and report the local host name instead of the more traditional "localhost". I'd argue that I'd rather see the resolver changed to return the defined hostname instead of localhost than have spurious entries in /etc/hosts. Shouldn't 127.0.0.3 resolve to the same name? Has anyone opened a problem with Novell, asking why they added it? If it's a new standard, I'd like to see the reference to the standard. 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 __________________________________________________________________________________________________ CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This email from the State of California is for the sole use of the intended recipient and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized review or use, including disclosure or distribution, is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender and destroy all copies of this email. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
