A while back I was trying to set up some packaging tools on a Debian system, and came across a problem where my host was identifying itself as host/localhost.localdomain .
Firstly hostname returned the correct thing (i.e. servername), and secondly that /etc/hosts looked like this:
x.x.x.x servername.mydomain.com servername
127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost servername
some applications can’t cope with 127.0.0.1 returning localhost.localdomain instead of localhost.
Replacing that last line with
127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.localdomain servername
solved the problem - i.e. localhost.localdomain wants to be an alias,
this was using a sarge system; I don’t know what the current situation is with etch, nor whether it has been fixed in recent sarge update.
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