Benjamin Low wrote: > After just installing debian/unstable, I've found my /etc/hosts file > contains the line > > 127.0.0.1 preston localhost > > This is invalid, the "hostname" address shouldn't be mapped to the > loopback address. (I can provide authoratitive references stating as > such, if required).
Funny, my unstable machines don't have that. I have this: 127.0.0.1 localhost loopback unix I remember putting "unix" in there by hand, because some program was failing due to an inability to resolve the name, which it obviously expected to refer to localhost. I may have added "loopback" for the same reason. The name of my machine, however, is mapped to its actual IP address. Craig
