On Fri 04 Oct 2019 at 16:04:11 (-0400), Dan Ritter wrote: > ghe wrote: > > On 10/4/19 1:36 PM, Dan Ritter wrote: > > > > root@pix:~# cat /etc/hostname > > sbox > > This is good. > > > > /etc/hosts > > > > root@pix:~# cat /etc/hosts > > ... > > > 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost lh lcl > > this is fine. Some mechanisms like to pick up a non-localhost > name in 127/8 and pretend it's the hostname.
Would it help to have 127.0.1.1 preferred-hostnames in /etc/hosts? Or is that for resolving "the other way round"? Cheers, David.
