turns out the culprit is the Open SuSE 11.1 YaST network configurator. the 127.0.0.2 is added to /etc/hosts automagically.
/etc/hosts: 10.1.1.186 ookpik.creedon.biz ookpik 127.0.0.2 ookpik.creedon.biz ookpik ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Ted Creedon <[email protected]> Date: Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 11:45 AM Subject: Re: [OpenAFS] vos listaddrs produces 127.0.0.2 To: Derrick Brashear <[email protected]> Something added 127.0.0.2 back into ookpik's /etc/hosts - wasn't me... Wild - when I figure this one out I'll list it. On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 10:14 AM, Derrick Brashear <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 10:02 AM, Ted Creedon <[email protected]> > wrote: > > removing br1 and assigning 10.1.1.185 to eth1 removed 127.0.0.2 and > inserted > > ookpik. > > It looks like the ioctl that gathers the interfaces does not pick up > > bridges that have IP addresses, lo and ethX's only. > > > > Bridges are now created by default in OpenSuSE 11.1. > > that's unfortunate. > > well, you might wanna tell the list what you found. >
