Ubuntu
network-manager package

  1. Bug #632896
  2. Comment #16

Comment 16 for bug 632896

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In , Russ (russ-redhat-bugs) wrote :

WTF!!!

Why in the @#$% does NetworkManager add an entry to /etc/hosts anyway?

This is absolutely stupid and ridiculous behaviour.

I absolutely DO NOT want or need ANYTHING in the hosts file. We run local DNS, and I just wasted an HOUR of my time screwing around reconfiguring my HTTPD proxy ON ANOTHER MACHINE simply because NetworkManager changed my hosts file on THIS laptop a month ago and added an incorrect entry to /etc/hosts. So I thought it was a proxy problem ON ANOTHER MACHINE. . .

Since /etc/hosts was incorrect the laptop was unreachable to itself.

At this point I'm ready to just remove NetworkManager from this laptop before something else gets seriously screwed up ON ANOTHER MACHINE. I'd rather have to configure the wireless by hand than have this type of behaviour.

There is absolutely no need for ANYTHING in /etc/hosts except localhost.