package manager broken

[Ric Moore]

On 05/30/2013 02:35 PM, Tom H wrote:
> On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 1:59 PM, Paul Tremblay <ptrembl at amazon.com> wrote:
>>
>> If this helps, my /etc/hosts file looks like this:
>>
>> 127.0.0.1 ptrembl-dev.ant.amazon.com ptrembl-dev localhost
>> ...
>
> I don't think that "/etc/hosts" has a bearing on this problem but it's
> best not to have it set u this way.
>
> The Ubuntu default is
>
> For DHCP
> 127.0.0.1 localhost
> 127.0.1.1 ptrembl-dev.ant.amazon.com ptrembl-dev
>
> For static
> 127.0.0.1 localhost
> a.b.c.d    ptrembl-dev.ant.amazon.com ptrembl-dev
>
> because there are supposed to be problems with certain
> applications/situations when localhost is an alias of the hostname or
> the hostname is an alias of localhost.


then wouldn't the localhost name be appended with the hostname?
127.0.0.1 localhost ptrembl-dev


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