On 2015-03-12 13:29:47 +0100, Stéphane Aulery wrote:
> You suggested this improvement long ago. Is it still relevant?
Yes, still relevant.
> If so, can you provide an appropriate explanatory text of the
> example? Maybe it's nothing, but I have no knowledge on the subject.
Perhaps say:
127.0.1.1 is often used for the FQDN of the machine.
The main goals of my suggestion to mention 127.0.1.1 are:
* Inform the user who sees that in his /etc/hosts (normally
automatically generated by the Debian installer) that this
is not a mistake.
* Show an example where the FQDN is not associated with the IP of
a configured interface (the IPv4 address of the lo interface is
127.0.0.1, but any 127.x.x.x address will respond too).
Moreover IPv6 addresses could be added in the examples:
::1 localhost ip6-localhost ip6-loopback
ff02::1 ip6-allnodes
ff02::2 ip6-allrouters
since these ones are the default ones in Debian. This is a subset of
http://www.bieringer.de/linux/IPv6/IPv6-HOWTO/IPv6-HOWTO-6.html#etc-hosts
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