> > Never, under any circumstances, change your machine's name to something
> > other than localhost. Your machine should always respond to "localhost",
> > as it's bound to both your default IP and 127.0.0.1.
> >
> > You can name your machine something in *addition* to localhost. Man hosts.
>
> What?? responded to 127.0.0.1 has nothing to do with the actual hostname,
> of which there can only be one. I think you are somewhat confused here..
The machine must always respond to "localhost". If the localhost name is
removed, you've got big trouble. And a machine can have as many names as
you want. It can only have one *default* name, but it can have dozens of
names, aliases, etc. loghost, localhost, foo, bar, bas, the-machine-that-
shall-not-be-named, etc. etc. etc.
Now, what I assume this person did was take the /etc/hosts entry and change
the alias for 127.0.0.1 to something other than localhost. This is what
shold not happen, because a machine must always respond to this machine name
(yes, it's a proper machine name). Give it as many other IPs and names,
but removing localhost/127.0.0.1, or renaming 127.0.0.1 to something else,
is a Bad Thing(TM).
--mark
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