On Sun, 13 Feb 2005 13:30:11 +0100, Steinar H. Gunderson wrote: > Current d-i writes the following line to the beginning of /etc/hosts: > > 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost
This is correct. > Traditionally, this confuses some programs; at least pvm used to have > problems with this, and I'm fairly sure cfengine2 doesn't like it either What problems? If there are problems then they probably arise from a faulty _combination_ of /etc/hosts, hostname, /etc/nsswitch.conf and /etc/resolv.conf settings. > so we've changed to > > 127.0.0.1 <machinename>.<our domain> <machinename> localhost > > However, now we've suddenly discovered that _other_ programs get confused by > this! So revert the change? > In particular, if you use an NFSv4-patched mount, it does a > gethostname() and resolves that, which returns 127.0.0.1, which in turn makes > it happily use that as a client identifier to the remote server. (This breaks > when two or more such clients connect, obviously.) Make your /etc/hosts look like this: 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost w.x.y.z <machinename>.<our domain> <machinename> Make w.x.y.z either the permanent IP address of your machine's permanently connected network adapter, or, if it does not have one of those, "127.0.1.1". -- Thomas Hood -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
