127.0.1.1 in /etc/hosts

[Oliver Grawert]

hi,
Am Montag, den 27.11.2017, 15:47 -0700 schrieb Stuart McGraw:
> What is the meaning of the line:
> 
>   127.0.1.1  mymachine.xxx  mymachine
> 
> in my /etc/hosts file?  It was put in there by a Xubuntu-17.10
> install (or to be more accurate, an Ubuntu server-17,10 + Xubuntu
> package install.)  I am installing some backup software (bacula) 
> which for reasons I haven't delved into, dislikes (as in breaks) 
> when it resolves "mymachine"s address and ends up with 127.0.0.1 
> which is what happens when the above line is present in /etc/hosts.  
> 
> Will I break something else if I remove or replace the line 
> with the machine's "real" ip address which keeps bacula happy, 
> eg:
> 
>   10.10.200.85  mymachine.xxx  mymachine
> 
> ?  Thanks...
> 
see https://askubuntu.com/questions/754213/what-is-difference-between-l
ocalhost-address-127-0-0-1-and-127-0-1-1

which has the right pointer to a quote from the debian reference manual
on this topic ... it is a placeholder IP to make sure some low level
network features still work even if you are physically offline.

ciao
	oli
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