Re: /etc/hosts behavior

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Fri, 2009-03-13 at 15:10 -0400, Philip A. Culver wrote:
> Hello,
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> I am seeing behavior in some situations where the /etc/hosts file get
> updated with
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> 127.0.0.1   myhostname localhost.localdomain localhost
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> Realip        myhostname
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> Notice myhostname is now linked to the loopback address.

Looking into this; though most of the examples out there say really odd
and not relevant stuff like "if using static IP use realip+hostname,
otherwise if DHCP use 127.0.0.1+hostname", which is, well, wrong.

If this does need to be changed, I think I'd with a fix where, when
connected to something, NM always wrote out realip+hostname, and when
disconnected, used 127.0.0.1+hostname.

Dan

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> This causes JBoss server instances to not properly bind to the
> external IP but only the loopback in our application.
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> I looked in NetworkManagerPolicy.c and saw that the update_etc_hosts
> procedure seems to do this modification.   Is there a particular
> reason this is done?  What situations would cause this to occur?  It
> seems to me to be a bad idea
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> Thanks,
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> Phil
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