Description of problem: In my world (telecom) all systems are multi-homed and /etc/hosts is used a lot. The problem is that s-c-n can't seem to handle multi-homed hosts with /etc/hosts entries. For example I want: 172.16.3.4 myhost myhost-corp 10.1.2.3 myhost myhost-cluster0 10.1.3.3 myhost myhost-cluster1 (which is the correct format for /etc/hosts for a multi-homed system) My problems are: 1) I can't create it using the GUI 2) (worse) if I manually edit /etc/hosts and set it like this, opening s-c-n and then Saving corrupts what I created, writing out only the last IP address I had defined for each host (e.g., 10.1.3.3 in the above example). This bug is almost certainly blocked by bug 198898. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): system-config-network-tui-1.3.22.0.EL.4.2-1 How reproducible: Problem 1 (can't put multiple IPs per host via the GUI): Steps to Reproduce: 1. run system-config-network 2. create 2 or more entries with the same host name but different IP addresses 3. Save Actual results: /etc/hosts contains only the last-defined IP address Expected results: /etc/hosts contains all the entries I created. Problem 2 (GUI corrupts manually created /etc/hosts): Steps to Reproduce: 1. vi /etc/hosts and associate 3 IPs with your host (like in the description above) 2. run system-config-network 3. Save Actual results: /etc/hosts contains only the last-defined IP address (all my other hard work is gone) Expected results: /etc/hosts contains all the entries that were there before. Additional info:
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*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 442458 ***