On Tue, 2013-12-10 at 10:15 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > Coy Hile <[email protected]> writes: > > On 12/10/13, 4:10 AM, "Harald Barth" <[email protected]> wrote: > > >>>> $ more hosts > >>>> 127.0.0.1 localhost > >>>> 127.0.1.1 peter.cae.uwm.edu peter > > >>> I know various Linux distributions do > >>> this by default, ... > > > Somewhat off-topic, but am I the only one who thinks that > > Linux distributions doing this is utterly brain-dead? > > No. I always argue vigorously against doing this sort of nonsense in > Debian.
Yeah, this sort of thing is pretty terrible. I understand why people want to do it, but it breaks things pretty badly. Fixing this has been part of our standard (automated) OS install process for over a decade. -- Jeff _______________________________________________ OpenAFS-info mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info
