Subject: Re: apache fails to start when not connected to net
From: Brian Dessent <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Date: Tue, 02 Nov 2004 12:56:21 -0800

Elvin Peterson wrote:

> The /etc/hosts file is fine and does contain the
> definition for localhost.  But the module in question
> is doing
> 
> gethostbyname("mymachinename")
> 
> where mymachinename is the name given to the windows
> machine during installation.

Unless you're using the functionality of mod_unique_id (and if you don't
know, you aren't) then just disable it.  You should disable modules that
you don't use anyway, as it will decrease the memory footprint and
shield you should a bug be found in one that you aren't using.

Brian

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