Thank you for opening this bug. bug 407861 has more information on why this change was made. We decided not to overwrite /etc/hosts, and let that stay user-managed.
It would be easy for you to add a upstart job or startup script to handle this if you wanted. I'm not 100% sold on the solution that is in place, but it would take careful execution, and would be a change (possibly harmful) to start writing /etc/hosts from a template again. What do you think? ** Changed in: cloud-init (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided => Low ** Changed in: cloud-init (Ubuntu) Status: New => Triaged -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Server Team, which is subscribed to cloud-init in ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/720440 Title: /etc/hosts is updated based on /etc/cloud/templates/hosts.tmpl -- Ubuntu-server-bugs mailing list Ubuntu-server-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-server-bugs