Brian wrote: > Tom H wrote: > > Brian wrote: > > > Teresa e Junior wrote: > > >> $ cat /etc/hostname > > >> localhost > ... > True. What do think about the lack of '127.0.1.1 localhost' in > etc/hosts? Squeeze and Wheezy installs would both put this line in.
Process check! I think you have mixed up the two cases. Since a long time now Debian installs a /etc/hosts file that will look like this: 127.0.0.1 localhost 127.0.1.1 foo.example.com foo That way 127.0.0.1 maps to localhost and localhost maps to 127.0.0.1 and this is always independent of whether networking is up or down. That is just the default and of course may be locally modified. I think it is a good default. I do have some special cases that need this to be adjusted otherwise but good as a general purpose default. Additionally the hostname always uses the loopback device. Again this allows applications to work using the hostname regardless of the state of other network devices. Bob
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