Jira (PUP-1928) puppet's idea of /etc/hosts management does not match real world use

[Charlie Sharpsteen (JIRA)]

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Charlie Sharpsteen commented on an issue   Re: puppet's idea of /etc/hosts management does not match real world use To recap discussion in the Redmine ticket: Hosts resources should be using the IP address as a unique key instead of host name. This will probably require breaking changes to the Hosts Type and Provider. Add Comment   Puppet / PUP-1928 puppet's idea of /etc/hosts management does not match real world use Here is a valid extract from an /etc/hosts files on a RHEL box:     127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.localdomain localhost4 localhost4.localdomain4     ::1 localhost localhost.localdomain localhost6 localhost6.localdomain6 Here is the code to make puppet add these entries:         host { 'localhost':                 ip => '127.0.0.1',  ... This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.1.4#6159-sha1:44eaede) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Bugs" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to puppet-bugs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to puppet-bugs@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-bugs. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.