Re: localhost.localdomain

[Jason Kohles <email jasonkohles com>]

On Wed, May 14, 2003 at 09:56:25AM -0500, John Beamon wrote:
> 
> Actually, I've seen this as well.  I can manually install and specify a 
> static IP, and the only place it goes is 
> /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0.  This is a valid point, IMHO.
> 
Which means the machine was not able to resolve the ip address you entered,
this is the code that writes /etc/hosts during install:

        # /etc/hosts
        f = open(instPath + "/etc/hosts", "w")
        localline = "127.0.0.1\t\t"

        log("self.hostname = %s", self.hostname)

    ip = self.lookupHostname()

    # If the hostname is not resolvable, tie it to 127.0.0.1
    if not ip and self.hostname != "localhost.localdomain":
        localline = localline + self.hostname + " "
        l = string.split(self.hostname, ".")
        if len(l) > 1:
        localline = localline + l[0] + " "

    localline = localline + "localhost.localdomain localhost\n"
        f.write("# Do not remove the following line, or various programs\n")
        f.write("# that require network functionality will fail.\n")
        f.write(localline)

    if ip:
        f.write("%s\t\t%s\n" % (ip, self.hostname))

If the hostname you entered was not resolvable to an ip address, then it
will get associated with the localhost address in /etc/hosts.

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