Re: IP address question

[Chip Seraphine]

The installers in some Unix variants (especially some Linux distros with 
'friendly' installers) actually put the hostname on the 127.0.0.1 line 
in /etc/hosts.  This is totally wrong for a networked machine!   If your 
box has so much as a modem, 127.0.0.1 should be "localhost 
localhost.localdomain" and the like (some people also use "loopback" and 
whatever.)

Checking the hosts file in newly built Linux boxen can save you from 
many annoying and subtle errors like the one you describe.

Systems Administrator wrote:
> On Wed, 1 Oct 2003 Mark.Burgess@iu.hio.no wrote:
>
>
> > Someone else got this once because they had defined their own host as
> > localhost in files or dns. A reverse lookup effect. 
>
>
> 	Right.  Phooey.  That means that I have to use ifconfig to get my 
> other IP.  
>
>         :)
>
>
> > M
> >
> > On  1 Oct, Systems Administrator wrote:
> >
> > > 	Hi all.  Does anyone know how cfengine determines $(ipaddress)?  
> > > Because mine is currently giving 127.0.0.1.  
> > >
> > >         :)
> >
> >
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