I've been having a problem where when our vps provider decides to
restart the server (running Debian 5.0.8), the server fails to
remember changes to /etc/hosts. All I need is an database alias that
is used for the webapps on the server which points to 127.0.0.1
localhost.
I want it to look like this:
# The following lines are desirable for IPv6 capable hosts
# (added automatically by netbase upgrade)
127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost webservice
# Auto-generated hostname. Please do not remove this comment.
XXX.XX.XXX.XX xxxxxx.net.au xxxxxx www.xxxxxxx.net.au xxxxxxx
Note the word database missing after 127.0.0.1
without the database, and I have to manually change the file to get
things to work. This has been happening for awhile and has become a
nuisance, but I can't seem to find a way to get changes to stick.
Anyone know what to do?
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06-16-2011, 08:11 AM
Claudius Hubig
/etc/hosts in debian resets itself on reboot
Tapas Mishra <mightydreams@gmail.com> wrote:
>Note the word database missing after 127.0.0.1
>without the database, and I have to manually change the file to get
>things to work. This has been happening for awhile and has become a
>nuisance, but I can't seem to find a way to get changes to stick.
>Anyone know what to do?
Do you happen to have Network Manager or something similiar running?
It does have some strange ideas wrt the 127.0.0.1-line. Otherwise,
I’d suspect your hosts’ script doing strange stuff, as it already
seems to be tampering with your /etc/hosts (# Auto-generated
hostname. Please do not remove this comment.).
Best regards,
Claudius
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06-16-2011, 08:21 AM
Jochen Schulz
/etc/hosts in debian resets itself on reboot
Tapas Mishra:
>
> I've been having a problem where when our vps provider decides to
> restart the server (running Debian 5.0.8), the server fails to
> remember changes to /etc/hosts. All I need is an database alias that
> is used for the webapps on the server which points to 127.0.0.1
> localhost.
I don't know what keeps overwriting your file, but I assume it actually
just re-writes a single line for localhost. Try adding a new line
pointing to "database" like this and see if that persists:
127.0.0.1 database
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06-16-2011, 10:47 AM
Tom H
/etc/hosts in debian resets itself on reboot
On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 4:21 AM, Jochen Schulz <ml@well-adjusted.de> wrote:
>>
>> I've been having a problem where when our vps provider decides to
>> restart the server (running Debian 5.0.8), the server fails to
>> remember changes to /etc/hosts. All I need is an database alias that
>> is used for the webapps on the server which points to 127.0.0.1
>> localhost.
>
> I don't know what keeps overwriting your file, but I assume it actually
> just re-writes a single line for localhost. Try adding a new line
> pointing to "database" like this and see if that persists:
>
> 127.0.0.1 database
NM adds a line associating the DHCP-assigned address with the box's
hostname. The 127.0.0.1 line doesn't change.
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06-16-2011, 11:26 AM
Claudius Hubig
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Tom H <tomh0665@gmail.com> wrote:
>On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 4:21 AM, Jochen Schulz <ml@well-adjusted.de> wrote:
>>>
>>> I've been having a problem where when our vps provider decides to
>>> restart the server (running Debian 5.0.8), the server fails to
>>> remember changes to /etc/hosts. All I need is an database alias that
>>> is used for the webapps on the server which points to 127.0.0.1
>>> localhost.
>>
>> I don't know what keeps overwriting your file, but I assume it actually
>> just re-writes a single line for localhost. Try adding a new line
>> pointing to "database" like this and see if that persists:
>>
>> 127.0.0.1 database
>
>NM adds a line associating the DHCP-assigned address with the box's
>hostname. The 127.0.0.1 line doesn't change.
It also adds the hostname of the machine read from /etc/hosts to
the ::1 and 127.0.0.1 lines, although that is not a FQDN. I placed a
file /etc/hosts.real and rewrite /etc/hosts on every occasion NM had
reason to tamper with it (startup, connection to a new network,
shutdown etc.).
Best regards,
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06-16-2011, 11:40 AM
Camaleón
/etc/hosts in debian resets itself on reboot
On Thu, 16 Jun 2011 10:11:51 +0200, Claudius Hubig wrote:
> Tapas Mishra <mightydreams@gmail.com> wrote:
>>Note the word database missing after 127.0.0.1 without the database, and
>>I have to manually change the file to get things to work. This has been
>>happening for awhile and has become a nuisance, but I can't seem to find
>>a way to get changes to stick. Anyone know what to do?
>
> Do you happen to have Network Manager or something similiar running? It
> does have some strange ideas wrt the 127.0.0.1-line. Otherwise, I’d
> suspect your hosts’ script doing strange stuff, as it already seems to
> be tampering with your /etc/hosts (# Auto-generated hostname. Please do
> not remove this comment.).
And this user agrees with that:
Why is my hosts file reseting on reboot?
http://superuser.com/questions/52973/why-is-my-hosts-file-reseting-on-reboot
So I can only think in a DNS server or an external policy coming from the
provider that is enforcing the content of the "/etc/hosts" file. But I
would better ask them before making any change.
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06-16-2011, 12:07 PM
Nico Kadel-Garcia
/etc/hosts in debian resets itself on reboot
On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 2:32 AM, Tapas Mishra <mightydreams@gmail.com> wrote:
> I've been having a problem where when our vps provider decides to
> restart the server (running Debian 5.0.8), the server fails to
> remember changes to /etc/hosts. All I need is an database alias that
> is used for the webapps on the server which points to 127.0.0.1
> localhost.
>
> I want it to look like this:
>
> # The following lines are desirable for IPv6 capable hosts
> # (added automatically by netbase upgrade)
>
> ::1 * * ip6-localhost ip6-loopback
> fe00::0 ip6-localnet
> ff00::0 ip6-mcastprefix
> ff02::1 ip6-allnodes
> ff02::2 ip6-allrouters
> ff02::3 ip6-allhosts
>
>
> 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost webservice database
> # Auto-generated hostname. Please do not remove this comment.
> XXX.XX.XXX.XX xxxxxx.net.au *xxxxxx www.xxxxxxx.net.au xxxxxxx
Trust me on this: it keeps NetworkManager from mucking with it, and
will continue to focus your "webservice" traffic to the local network
port. The overpopulation and auto-editing of "localhost" and 127.0.0.1
is an old problem. Your editing attempts, and what is probably
NetworkManager's attempts to reset this "correctly", are conflicting
Unfortunately, NetworkManager is, in my experienced and expert
opinion, *crap*. It tries to do way too many things, and gets most of
them wrong because it *does not publish its API*. It just tries to
guess one based on other tool's common practices,and those differ by
convention by distribution and environment and local policy. And it
consistently gets them wrong for locally configured servers, as you
just found out.
Rip it out if possible: disable its init scripts if the dependencies
force you to keep it around.
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