Postfix ( 127.0.0.1: address not listed for hostname localhost )

[Rex Dieter]

redhatdude at bellsouth.net wrote:
> 
> On Dec 12, 2006, at 5:38 PM, Todd Zullinger wrote:
> 
>> redhatdude at bellsouth.net wrote:
>>> How can I fix this?
>>>
>>> The log:
>>>
>>> Dec 12 12:37:45 imaps[12729]: login: localhost.localdomain [::1]
>>> theusername plaintext+TLS User logged in
>>> Dec 12 12:37:45 postfix/smtpd[12786]: warning: 127.0.0.1: address not
>>> listed for hostname localhost
>>> Dec 12 12:37:45 postfix/smtpd[12786]: connect from unknown[127.0.0.1]
>>> Dec 12 12:37:45 postfix/smtpd[12786]: disconnect from unknown[127.0.0.1]
>>
>> Check your /etc/hosts entry for localhost?  The one shown in the error
>> (::1) is an ip6 address.  Ensure that you also (or only if you don't
>> need ip6) have one for 127.0.0.1:
>>
>> $ grep 127.0.0.1 /etc/hosts
>> 127.0.0.1       localhost.localdomain       localhost
> 
> Amazing, I didn't have an entry for 127.0.0.1, I thought that was
> created when I installed Fedora.

Yeah, I've seen related problems reported wrt maxima:
http://bugzilla.redhat.com/216539
which seems related also to:
http://bugzilla.redhat.com/214932

-- Rex