localhost or LAN addresses in /etc/hosts

[NoOp]

On 12/12/2008 10:16 AM, Chris G wrote:
> How does one decide whether to put a machine's name as a localhost
> address or an actual LAN address in /etc/hosts?
> 
> My ubuntu server machine's name is isbd, this appears in three places
> in /etc/hosts at the moment:-
> 
>     127.0.0.1   isbd    localhost.localdomain   localhost
>     127.0.1.1 isbd

Modify to:

127.0.0.1 localhost isbd.<localdomain>
127.0.1.1 isbd

Note: you can remove '<localdomain> if you have no local windows
network domain (MSHOME, WORKGOUP etc). Then:

127.0.0.1 localhost isbd
127.0.1.1 isbd

The '127.0.0.1 localhost isbd' rather than just '127.0.0.1 localhost' is
useful if you run samba etc. I've no idea about the rest (dnsmasq).