I remember back in '99 when Justin Georgeson wrote:
> This may be a dumb question.
>
> My /etc/hosts files has a single entry:
> 127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.localdomain
>
> I set my hostname to sark, when I log into GNOME, it tells me it can't
> reach sark. If I list sark in /etc/hosts with a fake IP, it still can't
> reach it. Would it be bad to try and set the hostname according to the
> address I'm assigned from RR? Where would I do that? I could set
> 127.0.0.1 to point to sark, but I thought localhost was important.
> Anyhow everything works, it's just annoying.
I think that you could just list sark on your localhost line:
127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.localdomain sark
Matt
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