Comment 5 for bug 712031
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| Steve Langasek (vorlon) wrote Re: [Bug 712031] Re: alip: can't look up localhost.localdomain | #5 |
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On Thu, Feb 03, 2011 at 01:20:26PM -0000, Dr. David Alan Gilbert wrote:
> The default hostname is a separate issue from the fact that localhost
> isn't defined at all in the default (empty) /etc/hosts.
> I don't know if localdomain is defined in any standards anywhere, but
> apps do expect localhost to be defined.
The /etc/hosts I see on first boot does have localhost defined - it does not
have localhost.
It's possible this is being populated by networkmanager and we need to still
solve this for the headless and developer image types.
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