diff --git a/ethers b/ethers
deleted file mode 100644
index 62a9859..0000000
--- a/ethers
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,16 +0,0 @@
-#
-# ethers	This file contains 48 bit Ethernet addresses and their
-#		corresponding IP number or hostname. The two items are
-#		separated by any number of SPACE and/or TAB char acters.
-#		A at the beginning of a line starts a comment which extends
-#		to the end of the line. The Ethernet-address is written as
-#		x:x:x:x:x:x, where x is a hexadecimal number between 0 and
-#		ff which represents one byte of the address, which is in
-#		network byte order (bigendian). The IP-number may be a
-#		hostname which can be resolved by DNS or a dot separated
-#		number.
-#
-# Syntax:
-#	Ethernet-address	IP-number
-#
-#
diff --git a/hosts b/hosts
index be82a97..911b4d2 100644
--- a/hosts
+++ b/hosts
@@ -9,13 +9,10 @@
 # IP-Address  Full-Qualified-Hostname  Short-Hostname
 #
 
-127.0.0.1	localhost
-# fallback hostname used by NetworkManager
-127.0.0.1	localhost.localdomain
+127.0.0.1	localhost localhost.localdomain
+::1		localhost localhost.localdomain ipv6-localhost ipv6-loopback
 
 # special IPv6 addresses
-::1             localhost ipv6-localhost ipv6-loopback
-
 fe00::0         ipv6-localnet
 
 ff00::0         ipv6-mcastprefix
diff --git a/netcfg.changes b/netcfg.changes
index 7ff5940..c83fe65 100644
--- a/netcfg.changes
+++ b/netcfg.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Tue Nov 21 08:39:54 UTC 2023 - Thorsten Kukuk <kukuk@suse.com>
+
+- Fix syntax of localhost entries in hosts [bsc#1217355]
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Mon Nov 20 14:00:02 UTC 2023 - Thorsten Kukuk <kukuk@suse.com>
 
diff --git a/netgroup b/netgroup
deleted file mode 100644
index cd696b7..0000000
--- a/netgroup
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,24 +0,0 @@
-#
-# netgroup      The netgroup file. Entries look like this:
-#
-#                  netgroup  (host,user,domain)  (host,user,domain) ..
-#
-#               So for example a netgroup for powerusers could be:
-#
-#                  powerusers  (,miquels,) (,torvalds,) (,fubar,)
-#
-#               And an entry in the password file like
-#
-#                  +@powerusers:::::: 
-#                  +:*:::::/etc/NoShell
-#
-#
-#               would give access only to the users in "powerusers", while the
-#               other users would be known to the system but have an invalid
-#               shell AND an invalid password (with Linux, you can also
-#               override the password field).
-#
-
-# powerusers (,miquels,) (,torvalds,) (,fubar,)
-# ourhosts   (picard,,) (enterprise,,) (laforge,,) (Q,,)
-