[clue-tech] /etc/hosts changing on Debian

[Bruce Ediger]

On Sat, 10 May 2008, Angelo Bertolli wrote:

> Can someone give me a clue as to what might be editing the /etc/hosts file on 
> Debian?  I suspect the gnome network-admin program, but I'm not sure.  For 
> some reason, the system keeps adding what it thinks my local host name should 
> be to the table.  Sometimes it adds the host name with a bogus IP address

Sounds like the DHCP client to me.  Doesn't Debian use "pump" or some odd
thing?  I'm a Slackware kind of guy, and Slackware uses "dhcpcd".
SuSE or NetBSD used "dhclient", I think.

> from an old connection that wasn't activated.  Sometimes it adds my 
> hostname.RouterSuppliedDomain with the correct IP address.  This messes up 
> some programs like sudo.

This reinforces my guess about the DHCP client, whatever it might be.