Re: [PATCH] hosts.5: mention 127.0.1.1 for FQDN and IPv6 examples

["Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" <mtk.manpages-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>]

On 03/12/2015 10:12 PM, Stéphane Aulery wrote:
> Debian bug #562890 reported by Vincent Lefevre <vincent-buymaDBGzMOsTnJN9+BGXg@public.gmane.org>

Applied. Thanks, Stéphane.

Cheers,

Michael


> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=562890
> Signed-off-by: Stéphane Aulery <saulery-GANU6spQydw@public.gmane.org>
> ---
>  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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