Bug 5967

Summary:	foul hosts configuration
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	richard-kelley
Component:	installer	Assignee:	Michael K. Johnson <johnsonm>
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Priority:	medium
Version:	6.1	CC:	jack
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Description richard-kelley 1999-10-14 21:38:31 UTC

On a system with dual nics, the /etc/hosts file created
during installation and as changed by linuxconf is
disfunctional.

127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost p6012.cfaa.ufl.edu
128.227.160.14  s05.cfaa.ufl.edu
10.5.6.12       p6012.cfaa.ufl.edu

This causes the system to attempt to serve web pages from
localhost.localdomain which aside from the initial page
produces errors for all other content.

A functional version of /etc/hosts is
127.0.0.1      localhost.localdomain localhost
128.227.160.14 s05.cfaa.ufl.edu      s05
10.5.6.12      p6012.cfaa.ufl.edu    p6012

Unfortunately, the only single nic system I have I did an
upgrade on rather than a fresh install, so I can not address
the issue other than on a dual nic system.

Comment 1 jrjohns 1999-11-02 18:52:59 UTC

I can concur that this is a problem on single-NIC systems.
The following is the actual output of a single NIC system (this is all
on one line in the file):

127.0.0.1               localhost.localdomain localhost
flounder.r2tech.com

As you can see, the above is not correct at all.  It should
have been something like:

127.0.0.1               localhost.localdomain localhost
10.0.1.4                flounder.r2tech.com

Even more preferrable would be:
127.0.0.1               localhost.localdomain localhost
10.0.1.4                flounder.r2tech.com flounder

Comment 2 Michael K. Johnson 1999-11-19 15:24:59 UTC

Added Jacques to CC line

Comment 3 Nalin Dahyabhai 2000-01-07 17:40:59 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 5964 ***