Hi. On Wed, Feb 15, 2023 at 07:30:44AM -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote: > That said, I'm curious about this part oF Gene's result: > > > > gene@bpi54:~$ grep -i bpi54 /etc/hosts > > > 192.168.71.12 bpi54.coyote.den bpi54 > > > gene@bpi54:~$ getent hosts bpi54 > > > fe80::4765:bca4:565d:3c6 bpi54 > > Where does getent pull that IPv6 address from?
libnss-myhostname does that. Why it chooses ipv6 link-local over ipv4 static IP is another question. Much better question is - what exactly one should put into /etc/hosts so that it would be completely ignored? > That's not what I get when I look myself up: Maybe because *your* /etc/hosts is not malformed? Reco
