From: jspricke@debian.org 
  
 * Simon McVittie  [2025-10-13 23:51]: 
 >libnss-myhostname does this dynamically rather than by writing static 
 >configuration, so it will try to use one of the machine's reachable IP 
 >addresses (192.0.2.123 or something), falling back to 127.0.0.2 if 
 >there's nothing better available. 127.0.0.2 is conceptually similar to 
 >127.0.1.1, just a slightly different implementation choice. 
  
 An additional benefit is that libnss-myhostname allows deleting 
 /etc/hosts so one file less to manually keep in sync and that could 
 influence the system. 
  
 Cheers Jochen 
  
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