Bug 59801 – localhost. vs localhost.localdomain

Bug 59801 - localhost. vs localhost.localdomain

Summary:	localhost. vs localhost.localdomain

Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX

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Product:	Red Hat Linux
Classification:	Retired
Component:	anaconda (Show other bugs)
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Version:	7.3
Hardware:	i386 Linux

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Assigned To:	Jeremy Katz
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Reported:	2002-02-13 10:17 EST by Emmanuel Galanos
Modified:	2005-10-31 17:00 EST (History)
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Last Closed:	2002-04-10 16:20:17 EDT
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Description Emmanuel Galanos 2002-02-13 10:17:07 EST

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 14:25:45 EST

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

Comment 2 Jay Turner 2002-03-19 17:01:46 EST

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

Comment 3 Jeremy Katz 2002-04-10 16:23:54 EDT

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

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