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Re: /etc/hosts and DNS, bug or feature?
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Miles O'Neal <[log in to unmask]>
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Miles O'Neal <[log in to unmask]>
Date:
Sat, 11 Aug 2007 17:38:28 -0500
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Nathan Moore said...

|[root@buff ~]# cat /etc/hosts
|# Do not remove the following line, or various programs
|# that require network functionality will fail.
|127.0.0.1       buff    localhost.localdomain   localhost
|::1     localhost6.localdomain6 localhost6
|
|Can someone explain what the "localhost6" does?

I'm guessing from the format and that the line contains three
sixes (666!) that it's IPV6 stuff.

Which doresn't help with your other problem.

What is your nsswitch.conf entry for hosts?
Does NIS or LDAP factor in?

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