On 2013-11-27 12:21, Rainer Heilke wrote:
and the /etc/hosts included:
127.0.0.1 localhost loghost extname
Correct.
This would indeed not work, because (if the /etc/hostname.* file
does not contain a numeric IP address explicitly), the name for
the interface is matched to the hosts name database to get the IP.
But something changed, as I'm sure the file was not changed since a7.
That's why I'm wondering if rules tightened up.<shrug>
It now works, and I'm making a note of it in my files.
Not to my knowledge... this (using /etc/hostname's with names from
loopback address) did not work back in solaris 8-9-10 as well ;)
I might only guess that some upgrade wizard or the DHCP magic moved
the hostname string (one which is equal to /etc/nodename contents)
from an IP address to loopback - perhaps because at some moment this
was the only configured IP address bound to an interface on your
system. But this is a very speculative area and I don't want to
go deeper into this :)
At least, I'm pleased that finally something does (explicably)
work on your system the way it should :)
//Jim
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