Bug 59801

Summary:	localhost. vs localhost.localdomain
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	e
Component:	anaconda	Assignee:	Jeremy Katz <katzj>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	Brock Organ <borgan>
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Description e 2002-02-13 15:17:07 UTC

Description of Problem:
Red Hat Linux uses localhost.localdomain for 127.0.0.1

Additional Information:
RFC1537 recommends against this (plus it has quite valid reasons).

Changing the /etc/hosts entry to be:

127.0.0.1 localhost. localhost.localdomain

Will avoid any compatability problems or problems with software starting up.

"localhost.localdomain -- just say no".

Comment 1 Michael Fulbright 2002-02-13 19:25:45 UTC

This seems like something thats been brought up before, surely a duplicate.

Comment 2 Jay Turner 2002-03-19 22:01:46 UTC

I think we have this discussion every time that we release.  What's the
resolution now?

Comment 3 Jeremy Katz 2002-04-10 20:23:54 UTC

The resolution on os-devel-list was that changing it definitely breaks things still.