[Nix-dev] [NixOS] 127.0.0.1 in /etc/hosts

[Lluís Batlle i Rossell]

On Fri, Oct 05, 2012 at 07:11:26PM +0200, Rickard Nilsson wrote:
> I know this has been discussed before, but today I ran into a problem  
> again that was caused by the fact that NixOS adds the row "127.0.0.1  
> ${hostName} ${hostName}.${domain}" to /etc/hosts.
> 
> I had configured my nfsd service (rpc.nfsd) to listen on the ip of its own  
> hostname, but since that it set to 127.0.0.1 in /etc/hosts, rpc.nfsd bound  
> only to the local interface, making nfs mounts from clients impossible.
> 
> Is there some particular motivation behind the /etc/hosts generation? Why  
> should the hostname always be mapped to 127.0.0.1? I think it is wrong,  
> simply.

In one server I also have it worked around, having the hostname as normal public
ip. Maybe we can set it to a static ip, if there is a static ip set, and
127.0.0.1 otherwise?