Comment 5 for bug 94048

Hi Sebastien,

Yep, it works. Here's my output:

conn@inspiron:~$ cat /etc/hosts
127.0.0.1 localhost inspiron
127.0.1.1 inspiron

# The following lines are desirable for IPv6 capable hosts
::1 ip6-localhost ip6-loopback
fe00::0 ip6-localnet
ff00::0 ip6-mcastprefix
ff02::1 ip6-allnodes
ff02::2 ip6-allrouters
ff02::3 ip6-allhosts
conn@inspiron:~$ ping localhost
PING localhost (127.0.0.1) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from localhost (127.0.0.1): icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.038 ms
64 bytes from localhost (127.0.0.1): icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=0.036 ms
64 bytes from localhost (127.0.0.1): icmp_seq=3 ttl=64 time=0.036 ms
64 bytes from localhost (127.0.0.1): icmp_seq=4 ttl=64 time=0.036 ms

--- localhost ping statistics ---
4 packets transmitted, 4 received, 0% packet loss, time 2997ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 0.036/0.036/0.038/0.006 ms
conn@inspiron:~$ ping inspiron
PING localhost (127.0.0.1) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from localhost (127.0.0.1): icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.038 ms
64 bytes from localhost (127.0.0.1): icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=0.038 ms
64 bytes from localhost (127.0.0.1): icmp_seq=3 ttl=64 time=0.037 ms
64 bytes from localhost (127.0.0.1): icmp_seq=4 ttl=64 time=0.039 ms

--- localhost ping statistics ---
4 packets transmitted, 4 received, 0% packet loss, time 2997ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 0.037/0.038/0.039/0.000 ms
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Note that all I changed was the first line of /etc/hosts, by default it was:

127.0.0.1 localhost
127.0.1.1 inspiron

...etc.

I didn't know what package to file against as I wasn't sure what generates /etc/hosts, and that it's apparently a gnome-centric problem.