I'm disappointed that my fix hasn't been implemented yet. I suppose most people running local tcpip servers have already kludged their hosts files and so don't encounter this problem...
Local clients that connect to "standard" local servers (such as bind and ntpd) seem to historically hardcode either "localhost" or "127.0.0.1" as the address of their local server. This works because the ubuntu/debian default /etc/hosts file defines 127.0.0.1 as localhost and so the definition will be available no matter what the network interfaces might look like at the time. However, any client that takes a less stone-age approach (especially java programs) will use their own hostname to address their local server. The new-format default hosts file will ALWAYS resolve the local hostname to 127.0.1.1. UNLESS we provide an interface that corresponds to this "new" local address, the server will never know it should be listening on that address! My fix defines a secondary address for the loopback interface, so the local server will discover it and listen on it. Since opening this bug, ifupdown-0.6.8ubuntu29.1 has been released and it still does not implement my fix. Therefore, I have attached an improved patch for the latest version of the package. Please would someone apply it? -- network servers do not listen on 127.0.1.1 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/604283 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
