RobertH wrote: > Marcus, > > Exactly, I have often wondered upstream does it that way so that I always > have to go fix the /etc/hosts file after every CentOS install. > > Since functionally, it is wrong. > indeed, having the hostname bound to the loopback interface seems to break a bunch of our java stuff too. first thing we've always had to do after a CentOS/RHEL install is change /etc/hosts, and put the hostname on its own line with the static IP, or leave it out entirely.