[Users] /etc/hosts

[Farkas Levente]

Kirill Korotaev wrote:
> Farkas Levente wrote:
>> hi,
>> why put openvz into each VE's /etc/hosts the hostname itself too? ie:
>> 127.0.0.1  host.example.com host localhost localhost.localdomain
>> and why do this on all reboot, why not accept
>> 127.0.0.1  localhost localhost.localdomain
>> it has some reasons?
>> thanks.
>> yours.
>>
> 
> If HOSTNAME set in VE config it is updated on every VE start.
> hostname is bound to 127.0.0.1 for simplicity of  updates on  ip change  i.e  
> it doesn't depend on ip in such a scheme.

ok, but in this case all tool like netstat, iptables etc.. assumes
127.0.0.1 as hostname and it's really annoying netstat -lt:
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# netstat -lt
tcp        0      0 host.example.com:smtp     *:*     LISTEN
tcp        0      0 host.example.com:smtp     *:*     LISTEN
# netstat -ltn
tcp        0      0 127.0.0.1:smtp     *:*     LISTEN
tcp        0      0 1.2.3.4:smtp       *:*     LISTEN
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