commit 671c232544e109ab0289b6e099274fda54a35dbf

Author: Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com>

Date:   Thu Feb 19 15:49:37 2009 -0500

    ifcfg-rh: ignore explicitly set 'localhost' hostnames (rh #441453)

    To match 'network' service behavior, which would perform reverse

    address lookups when the HOSTNAME from /etc/sysconfig/network

    was 'localhost' or 'localhost.localdomain'.  Just name your machine

    already.

diff --git a/system-settings/plugins/ifcfg-rh/plugin.c b/system-settings/plugins/ifcfg-rh/plugin.c

index e4f5bcf..b673615 100644

--- a/system-settings/plugins/ifcfg-rh/plugin.c

+++ b/system-settings/plugins/ifcfg-rh/plugin.c

@@ -499,6 +499,15 @@ plugin_get_hostname (SCPluginIfcfg *plugin)

 	hostname = svGetValue (network, "HOSTNAME");

 	svCloseFile (network);

+

+	/* Ignore a hostname of 'localhost' or 'localhost.localdomain' to preserve

+	 * 'network' service behavior.

+	 */

+	if (hostname && (!strcmp (hostname, "localhost") || !strcmp (hostname, "localhost.localdomain"))) {

+		g_free (hostname);

+		hostname = NULL;

+	}

+

 	return hostname;

 }