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gotcha when changing hostname
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You guys are having own hostname in hosts file?
seems like a pretty common practice across Linux distributions
/etc/hostname for the actual hostname, and a mapping in /etc/hosts pointing it at a 127.x.x.x address
Never, there's no need for it. I can reach it with localhost or 127.0.0.1, so why would I even put it in?