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[Rick Moen]

Quoting Scott DuBois (sdubois at linux.com):

> Today I go to do some web work and click the saved link to the Linux
> mapped location and Firefox sends me to a Google search. So I manually
> type the address into Arora to see how it resolves; dead; no results?
> 
> Check the Apache2 directories and everything looks fine. Jump over to my
> hosts file and someone, somehow, has re-written the file from Linux host
> name to linux.home.network? Type the address into Firefox and yes, results!
> 
> So, credit for a sense of humor but...really?

I don't suppose you recently used the /usr/bin/hostname utility with
root authority?  That's a very common mishap.  Often, the administrative
user is intending to use the 'host' command but deploys the hostname
command by mistake, with the unintended result of editing that line in
/etc/hosts.

(The Guinness is pretty good over here, by the way, though more sampling
is required in the name of science.) 

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