Man, they'll try anything to hack your system...

[Ben Scott]

On 1/29/06, Bill McGonigle <bill at bfccomputing.com> wrote:
> I consider postfix to be working properly in this case and the fedora
> core installer to be the misbehaver here.

  Yah, that's been a long-time standard Red Hat behavior.  I've always
corrected the /etc/hosts file soon after install.

  Red Hat is trying to compensate for the fact that, at install time,
people often don't know enough about their system to give it a proper
network config.  Indeed, for some systems (e.g., roaming laptops),
it's impossible to declare one config "proper".  At the same time, if
they don't associate the host name with an IP address and an FQDN,
various common nix programs puke.  I don't know if there is a "right"
way to handle this problem for all cases.  I suspect Red Hat just
picked the breakage they found least bad.

-- Ben