Bug 223428

Summary:	127.0.0.1 localhost entry in /etc/hosts file incorrect
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Steven Peterson <steven.peterson>
Component:	anaconda	Assignee:	Dave Cantrell <dcantrell>
Status:	CLOSED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:
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Priority:	medium
Version:	6	CC:	green
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OS:	Linux
URL:	localhost
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Description Steven Peterson 2007-01-19 09:09:17 UTC

Computer cannot resolve localhost to self. This is hard on new users!
Though a similar entry exists it does not seem to function.

ping -c 3 localhost
returns an unknown host.

Since mysql cannot operate, many other programs will be effected as well.
I have encountered this before, in previous versioin of redhat and fedora.

/etc/hosts does not belong to any package according to the rpm database so perhaps:
setup-2.6.1.1-1.fc6

Comment 1 Anthony Green 2007-01-26 16:15:03 UTC

My /etc/hosts file had an IPv6 localhost entry, but no IPv4 entry even though I
was on an IPv4-only network so localhost would not resolve.

This causes many problems with packages like kawa, any dssi plugins, postfix, etc.

Comment 2 Dave Cantrell 2007-03-08 16:56:05 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 211800 ***