On Fri, 7 Mar 2003, Mark Bradbury wrote:

> when I look at systems on the rhn site and then click on the one system
> that is registered it has a loopback ip ie 127.0.0.1 is this normal? and
> if not how do I change it.

Pretty much normal.  Chances are your registered just after you installed
the system and hadn't made any changes to the /etc/hosts file such that
localhost.localdomain was set to 127.0.0.1.

Why bother to change it?  It doesn't do anything for you to have it set
"correctly".....AFAIK.

> ps. I thank you for all your help. I have been looking after Linux boxes
> for almost 8 years and  redhat for 4 but this RHN just f*(#s my brain
> I seem to be going around and around on the web site

Well....Hat are circular, why should the web site be any different?



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