>> >5)  always use 127.0.0.1 localhost.domain localhost
>>
>> actually, i'd recommend "127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.domain" so that
>> you can look up localhost.domain (using gethostbyname()), but the
>> canonical name for it will be returned as localhost.
>
>Interesting.  I guess I have always preferred the FQDN
>as canonical, but that could be useful.

i think that doing as much as possible to keep 127.0.0.1 mapping to
localhost, and localhost to 127.0.0.1 is a good thing.  by putting the
localhost.fqdn first, things become more complicated.

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