Re: [PLUG] redhat's /etc/hosts - please tell me what your loopback line lookslike

[Darxus <darxus@op.net>]

On Wed, 15 Mar 2000, Greg Lopp wrote:

> In RH 6.1 :
> 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost

Thank you very much, I'll go complain at them now.  This wasn't left over
from a previous/upgraded install, right ?

> What kinds of problems can this lead to?

The only problem I've seen is when using the festival speech synthesizer
(http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/festival/) in client server mode.  By
default, the only hostname in its access list is "localhost".  If you try
to run a client application with your /etc/hosts file as it is, you'll be
connecting from 127.0.0.1, the festival server will resolve that to
"localhost.localdomain" (since that's the 1st entry), and you'll get
"rejected from localhost.localdomain not in access list".

This is of interest to me because it is a common problem when using
speechd (http://www.SpeechIO.org), which is software I, and a couple other
people wrote to implement a /dev/speech pseudo device (any plaintext
written to this file is spoken) -- makes it real easy to add speech
synthesis to anything.

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