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Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com> writes:

> Stefan> Maybe "localhost" could be ruled out because it's
> Stefan> sufficiently standard.  But "localhost.localdomain" is not
> Stefan> particularly standard, AFAIK.
>
> I don't recall seeing 'localhost.localdomain' back in the day -- but
> I know *I* didn't put it there.  If Fedora does it then that is
> standard enough for me; we're talking about thousands or millions of
> hosts here.

FWIW, my Debian or Ubuntu boxes don't seem to have this problem.