Comment 0 for bug 659872

Binary package hint: network-manager

I develop several web sites on my laptop, and each one is a different virtual host through Apache. Until Lucid, I was able to alias these hosts in /etc/hosts, like this

  127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.localdomain myhost1.localdomain myhost2.localdomain myhost3.localdomain

Starting with Maverick, however, NetworkManager overwrites the 127.0.0.1 line every time it initiates a new network connection, so these aliases are lost. It is fair to argue that aliasing 127.0.0.1 isn't ideal, but as far as I can find, NetworkManager doesn't offer any alternative for aliasing the bound IP address. For example, if I connect to WiFi, it adds a line like

  192.168.0.101 snape

There seems to be no way to get it to do

  192.168.0.101 snape myhost1.localdomain myhost2.localdomain myhost3.localdomain

NetworkManager should not overwrite the 127.0.0.1 line in /etc/hosts until there is an alternative method available for aliasing on the local machine, without setting up an entire local DNS server.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: network-manager 0.8.1+git.20100810t184654.ab580f4-0ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-22.34-generic 2.6.35.4
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-22-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx wl
Architecture: amd64
CRDA: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
Date: Wed Oct 13 08:22:07 2010
Gconf:

IfupdownConfig:
 auto lo
 iface lo inet loopback
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release Candidate amd64 (20100928)
IpRoute:
 192.168.0.0/24 dev eth0 proto kernel scope link src 192.168.0.198 metric 1
 169.254.0.0/16 dev eth0 scope link metric 1000
 default via 192.168.0.1 dev eth0 proto static
Keyfiles: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_CA.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
RfKill:
 0: hp-wifi: Wireless LAN
  Soft blocked: no
  Hard blocked: no
SourcePackage: network-manager