Basic question about DNS/hosts config

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Hello,
I would like to understand please what is the correct way to configure the Hosts file for Kaltura. Suppose we have a server with a FQDN of kaltura.mydomain.com, a local IP of 10.10.10.1, a translated public IP of 195.100.100.100.
According to the installation guide, I need to have in the hosts file:
127.0.0.1 mydomain.com

I do not understand why this is setup that way, giving my domain the loopback IP.
Whatever changes I make to the hosts file, the solution actually seems to work, but I’ve noticed it went quite slower when I had mydomain.com resolve to 127.0.0.1.

Thanks for your insights,

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Yes this is what they say in the setup guide.
So oferc, do you do all your setups with the following in the hosts file:
127.0.0.1 mydomain.com
?

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Yes this is what they say in the setup guide.
So oferc, do you do all your setups with the following in the hosts file:
127.0.0.1 mydomain.com
?