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Monday November 19, 2007

Hopscotch goes to 11
In a vain attempt to keep Zoe occupied we tried to teach her to play hopscotch on Sunday. She wasn't happy with our board and amended it. Guess there's a little bit of David St. Hubbins in her.

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I want my weekend back
I spent most of the weekend trying to find and fix a bug in my code. But nothing was working the way I thought that it should. To cut a long story short, I eventually discovered that the name server was returning a value for localhost that was not 127.0.0.1!

I logged a priority 1 trouble ticket with Sun's support organisation yesterday. So far I've had to explain to at least four different people what the problem, is and why it's a problem. And it's still not fixed.

The wierd thing is why this is happening at all. /etc/nsswitch.conf has "hosts: files nis dns" and /etc/hosts contains "127.0.0.1 localhost" so you'd expect that to take precedence. But it doesn't:

# traceroute localhost
traceroute: Warning: localhost has multiple addresses; using 10.x.x.x

I suspect that the problem is something to do with the fact that this system's IP address was assigned via DHCP, though why that should make a difference I don't know. But it still doesn't explain why someone thought that it was a good idea to use "localhost" as a hostname, or why that was allowed without being spotted.

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