How to make localhost as first match host name for shared ip(127.0.0.1)?

Question

To install Cloud Manager successfully in my system (14.04/64b), I shared my localhost ip 127.0.0.1 to my system account.

I edit my host(arul-pc) ip in /etc/hosts/ from 127.0.1.1 to 127.0.0.1 as shown below,

arul@arul-pc:~$ sudo nano /etc/hosts

127.0.0.1       localhost
127.0.0.1       arul-pc

# The following lines are desirable for IPv6 capable hosts
::1     ip6-localhost ip6-loopback
fe00::0 ip6-localnet
ff00::0 ip6-mcastprefix
ff02::1 ip6-allnodes
ff02::2 ip6-allrouters

Now when I get host name for 127.0.0.1, it returns arul-pc. I want to make localhost as first match for mentioned ip(127.0.0.1).

How to do it ?

Answer 1

Remove this line:

127.0.0.1       arul-pc

And add this line:

localhost       arul-pc