 | | | Notifications email failure - SOLVED | Notifications email failure - SOLVED 2005-09-08 - By Roger "Pe?a" Escobio
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--- Garrick Staples <garrick@(protected)> wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 08, 2005 at 09:11:31AM -0700, Jeff Boyce
> alleged:
> > This is a two part solution. First I changed my
> /etc/hosts file by adding
> > bison to the local host line, which now reads:
> > 127.0.0.1 bison localhost.localdomain
> localhost
>
> Ooo, that's probably going to break something else.
> You want localhost
> to have matching forward and reverse name lookups.
>
> I've always disagreed with Red Hat's convention of
> "127.0.0.1
> localhost.localdomain localhost" and always change
> it to "127.0.0.1
> localhost localhost.localdomain". Putting your
> hostname at the end of
> the 127.0.0.1 line is acceptable, but putting in at
> the beginning is a
> ticking bomb.
>
I am sorry my ignorance but why?
I always follow the rule of first the fully qualify
hostname then the alias of that host
sometimes I have more than one line with the same IP
number but different hostnames
now it looks that I am wrong so I just want to know
why :-)
thanks is advance
roger
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> Garrick Staples, Linux/HPCC Administrator
> University of Southern California
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