Ubuntu
eglibc package

Wildcards in hosts file

Bug #769450 reported by Shahar Or on 2011-04-23

This bug affects 1 person

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	GLibC	Confirmed	Wishlist	sourceware-bugs #14520
	eglibc (Ubuntu)	New	Wishlist	Unassigned

Bug Description

Dear Ones,

It would be great to be able to use wildcards in the hosts file like "127.0.0.1 *.localhost".

I'm not sure what is the upstream for this. Is it EGLIBC? Perhaps glibc?

Blessings,
Shahar

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: libc6 2.12.1-0ubuntu10.2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-28.49-generic 2.6.35.11
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-28-generic x86_64
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sat Apr 23 13:52:38 2011
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release amd64 (20101007)
ProcEnviron:
PATH=(custom, user)
LANG=en_US.utf8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: eglibc

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Shahar Or (mightyiam) wrote on 2011-04-23:

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Dave Gilbert (ubuntu-treblig) wrote on 2012-08-19:

I agree a more flexible /etc/hosts would be nice; I'd agree eglibc would probably be a good place to ask.
It's unlikely this would be fixed in ubuntu itself.

Changed in eglibc (Ubuntu):
importance:	Undecided → Wishlist

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In Sourceware.org Bugzilla #14520, Shahar Or (mightyiam) wrote on 2012-08-26:

It would be great to be able to use wildcards in the hosts file like:

"127.0.0.1 *.localhost".

This could serve some flexibility for web developers on their local test machines and such in testing name based virtual hosts in their system. May have other uses...

Thanks,
Shahar

affects:

eglibc → glibc

Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater) on 2012-08-26