Fargusson.Alan wrote:
I am not sure I understand what you are saying. The change that was made was to the name for the host in /etc/hosts. The name "loopback" should always have been to a 127.* address, and all the 127.* addresses should be routed to the loopback interface.
This entry: 127.0.0.2 gpok189.endicott.ibm.com gpok189 could result in a successful lookup for gpok189 when a hardware problem (fallen-out network cable) should cause it to fail (because BIND can't be reached). That does not seem to me a good idea. -- Cheers John -- spambait [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Advice http://webfoot.com/advice/email.top.php http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555375 You cannot reply off-list:-) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
