Opened 22 years ago
Closed 22 years ago
#515 closed defect (fixed)
Setup basic networking at start of chapter 6
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| Priority: | high | Milestone: | |
| Component: | Book | Version: | CVS |
| Severity: | normal | Keywords: | |
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Description
Some packages like Perl benefit from having at least an /etc/hosts file present. After we upgrade to inetutils (to replace netkit-base) and use IANA's version of the /etc/services file, also create /etc/hosts just containing the 127.0.0.1 entry. Chapter 7 will still allow readers to further modify this file and add NIC IP addresses to it.
The alternative is creating /etc/hosts during the Perl installation which won't look great. Just the wrong place to setup networking.
Change History (3)
comment:1 by , 22 years ago
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Apparently Zack has this one as well..