Bug 486461
| Summary: | Defining IPv6 and IPv4 loopback addresses needs multi on | ||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Allen Kistler <ackistler> |
| Component: | setup | Assignee: | Ondrej Vasik <ovasik> |
| Status: | CLOSED RAWHIDE | QA Contact: | Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | low | ||
| Version: | rawhide | CC: | dcantrell, ovasik, pknirsch |
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | setup-2.8.1-1.fc11 | Doc Type: | Bug Fix |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2009-02-26 12:42:09 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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| Bug Depends On: | |||
| Bug Blocks: | 486457 | ||
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Description
Allen Kistler
2009-02-19 21:06:43 UTC
I'm a bit worried about the change consequences. Host.conf(5) manpage states about "multi": 'This is off by default, as it may cause a substantial performance loss at sites with large hosts files.' To be honest - I don't know how big is that performance loss - and I don't want to add something what could cause performance impact on large servers. On other side - you are right that something to get IPv6-only box should work properly without editing config files. As a side note - shiping default /etc/hosts by setup was recently requested in bz #483244 , it would have 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost ::1 localhost6.localdomain6 localhost6 so it should not cause confusion for resolv+ library between IPv4 and IPv6 loopback even without multi on activated. The performance hit of "multi on" refers more to a time before the existence of DNS than now. Once upon a time, there was no DNS, and /etc/hosts could be several kB in size. Moreover, in order to keep /etc/hosts synced throughout the enterprise, /etc/hosts could be a symbolic link into an NFS mount so that only one hosts file had to be maintained. The resolution functions with multi off would search for the queried name and stop at the first hit. With multi on, it has to scan the whole file for multiple entries. I doubt that either the large size or the remote mount are true in any enterprise (or even home network) today. In Bug 486457, I'm suggesting that /etc/hosts should be 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost ::1 localhost.localdomain localhost ... because there really is no such thing as localhost6. As discussed in the original description, applications refer to the literal "localhost" no matter what its IP address is, including the address family. There's no confusion. localhost is localhost. Editing /etc/hosts as above is what I've done for IPv6 functionality in F9. In F11, I discovered I must also explicitly set multi on because, intentional or not, that's what the default was in F9. Ultimately the idea is to get IPv6 working out-of-the-box. As I said, localhost is localhost. Additionally, it seems likely to me that hosts could have both IPv4 and IPv6 addresses defined as dual-stacking becomes more common. But my main concern is localhost. As for whether anaconda or setup owns or creates /etc/hosts, I have no strong preference. anaconda creates it now probably only because it also inserts the host name into the file, and the host name isn't a fixed definition from installation to installation. "multi on" option added to default /etc/host.conf and built as setup-2.8.1-1.fc11, closing RAWHIDE |