applications using DBus no longer working all of a sudden? Check your /etc/hosts!

[Clemens Lang]

Hi,

----- On 4 Oct, 2014, at 10:38, René J.V. Bertin rjvbertin at gmail.com wrote:

> The solution was simple: I changed the address for my remapped hosts from
> 127.0.0.1 to 192.168.1.255 in /etc/hosts . That's the broadcast address of my
> local router but the address of a highly available open DNS server like 8.8.8.8
> should do the trick just as well.

I'd suggest using an address in 127./8 with the exception of 127.0.0.1 instead.
The whole 127./8 is reserved for loopback use.

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Clemens Lang