Re: [PATCH] hosts.5: mention 127.0.1.1 for FQDN and IPv6 examples
From: Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) <hidden>
Date: 2015-03-22 18:55:35
On 03/12/2015 10:12 PM, Stéphane Aulery wrote:
Debian bug #562890 reported by Vincent Lefevre [off-list ref]
Applied. Thanks, Stéphane. Cheers, Michael
quoted hunk
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=562890 Signed-off-by: Stéphane Aulery <redacted> --- man5/hosts.5 | 9 +++++++++ 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)diff --git a/man5/hosts.5 b/man5/hosts.5 index 9ec8cb2..2eaeb69 100644 --- a/man5/hosts.5 +++ b/man5/hosts.5@@ -106,11 +106,20 @@ I just found three, from 92, 94, and 95. .SH EXAMPLE .nf +# The following lines are desirable for IPv4 capable hosts 127.0.0.1 localhost + +# 127.0.1.1 is often used for the FQDN of the machine +127.0.1.1 thishost.mydomain.org thishost 192.168.1.10 foo.mydomain.org foo 192.168.1.13 bar.mydomain.org bar 146.82.138.7 master.debian.org master 209.237.226.90 www.opensource.org + +# The following lines are desirable for IPv6 capable hosts +::1 localhost ip6-localhost ip6-loopback +ff02::1 ip6-allnodes +ff02::2 ip6-allrouters .fi .SH SEE ALSO .BR hostname (1),
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