Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 17352
Hostname settings
Last modified: 2007-04-18 12:28:31 EDT
After setting hostname and network definitions, the resulting /etc/hosts is strange. Example : during installation process, I set the hostname to : myhost.mydomain Next I set for my Ethernet adaptator : IP 10.1.1.1 NetMask : 255.0.0.0 The resulting /etc/hosts is : # --- /etc/hosts begin --- 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost myhost.mydomain # --- /etc/host end I think it should be better like this : # --- /etc/hosts begin --- 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost 10.1.1.1 myhost.mydomain myhost # --- /etc/hosts end --- These are the settings I use now. I fund this probleme when trying to connect client Corba App to a Corba server running on a distant machine. The IOR created by Corba server was containing localhost.localdomain as server Id so the distant client couldn't connect via this IOR. This has appended with to differents ORBs (ORBit, omniOrb). With new hosts settings all is running well. linuxconf doesn't seem to be affected by this problem. I Didn't tried this to other RedHat version than 6.1 (Cartman). Kind Regards Sebastien Devaux ACCOM Multimedia 45 rue St Sebastien 75011 Paris FRANCE sde@accom.fr
We tried to improve this behavior in 6.2. There are lots of ways to create the /etc/hosts file (so that laptops which are not always connected to a network work ok, for example), and sometimes it will require menually changing /etc/hosts to get it right for a particular situation.