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authorAndrew Tridgell <tridge@samba.org>2005-07-19 05:09:36 +0000
committerGerald (Jerry) Carter <jerry@samba.org>2007-10-10 13:29:40 -0500
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r8579: recognise the name 'localhost' as 127.0.0.1. This solves a problem
with some hosts that are missing localhost from /etc/hosts (This used to be commit f9866258e099001390aa61dcc12055fe1374db60)
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diff --git a/source4/lib/util.c b/source4/lib/util.c
index 308d1b6f45..03ae86422f 100644
--- a/source4/lib/util.c
+++ b/source4/lib/util.c
@@ -339,6 +339,11 @@ uint32_t interpret_addr(const char *str)
if (strcmp(str,"255.255.255.255") == 0) {
return 0xFFFFFFFF;
}
+ /* recognise 'localhost' as a special name. This fixes problems with
+ some hosts that don't have localhost in /etc/hosts */
+ if (strcmp(str,"localhost") == 0) {
+ str = "127.0.0.1";
+ }
/* if it's in the form of an IP address then get the lib to interpret it */
if (is_ipaddress(str)) {