Custom Query (1145 matches)

Reported by alexp, 15 years ago.

On Apr 3, 2009, at 6:07 PM, Anders Kaseorg wrote:

127.0.1.1 zippy zippy.mit.edu is denied, but 127.0.1.1 zippy.mit.edu is allowed.

This probably happens because hostname -i will be 127.0.1.1 in the former case, but 18.142.4.128 in the latter case. So this is another manefestation of the known problem with 127.0.1.1.

Thanks for the information; we really need to solve the problem though; do we do that by making sure all hosts on those lines are fully qualified?

To be clear, the problem is not that there is a non-fully-qualified hostname in /etc/hosts. The problem is that because your kernel’s hostname is zippy, which is resolved by /etc/hosts to 127.0.1.1, license managers that have a client-side ACL of IP addresses (like 18.*) get confused.

If, as you did, you take zippy out of /etc/hosts (leaving only zippy.mit.edu), then zippy is resolved by DNS to 18.142.4.128 using the search path and servers in /etc/resolv.conf, and the license manager presumably becomes less confused.

A better client-side workaround is to put the right IP address in /etc/hosts:

18.142.4.128 zippy zippy.mit.edu

which is what I think the Ubuntu installer does if you configure it with a static IP address at install time. (For the cluster machines, we currently don’t.)

We are currently discussing possible solutions on zephyr.

Reported by jdreed, 15 years ago.

In the event that we cannot seamlessly transition our existing mail clients to Exchange, we should be prepared to have the mail icon in the panel do something clever, like open OWA for Exchange users, but still open Evolution for traditional IMAP users.

This should probably happen in -login-graphical, which is where the Evolution wrapper is currently.

Reported by jdreed, 15 years ago.

debathena / upgrade / jdreed 14:36 (Jonathan Reed)

I have a debconf dialog asking me what I want to do about "path.debathena", because apparently gconf2-common wants to clobber it

debathena / upgrade / andersk 14:38 (Anders Kaseorg)

Oh, /etc/gconf/2/path is ucf-managed. Huh.

debathena / upgrade / andersk 14:38 (Anders Kaseorg)

Things should work if you let it clobber the file.