Adds bogus alias to /etc/hosts

[Thomas Hood]

I changed the name of my host from 'thanatos' to 'thanatos1' using network-admin.
Here is what it did to my /etc/hosts file.

# diff -u hosts_PREGST hosts
--- hosts_PREGST 2005-06-19 17:54:43.000000000 +0200
+++ hosts 2005-06-24 10:36:30.000000000 +0200
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost
+127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost thanatos thanatos1
127.0.1.1 thanatos

The result is an invalid configuration. 'thanatos' occurs on more
than one line, whereas it should not appear in the file at all
any more. Furthermore, 'thanatos1' is inserted as an alias for
'localhost.localdomain' whereas I have assigned address 127.0.1.1
to the hostname.

The appropriate change would be:

-127.0.1.1 thanatos
+127.0.1.1 thanatos1

This bug was filed one year ago in the Debian BTS but nothing
has been done about it.

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=268337: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=268337

[Thomas Hood (jdthood)]

I just noticed that when I changed the domain name using network-admin,
the following line

   ::1 ip6-localhost ip6-loopback

was removed from /etc/hosts. I don't know anything about IPv6.
Is the removal of this line good, bad or neither?

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thanks for your bug, I've forwarded it upstream:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=310109. Setting it as to fix for 5.10

[Matt Zimmerman (mdz)]

Did this get fixed during Breezy?

[Carlos Garnacho (carlosg)]

yes :)

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

thank you for Carlos!