Core 199 - bug in network / edit hosts?

Network
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Gentlemen,

Yesterday I identified an forgotten host in wui network / edit hosts and clicked the dustbin as recomended here:

The wui-screen in my mozilla 140.7 turned to white and stayed white. I waited some time, but nothing happened. No menu any more. Mozilla’s reload-button didn’t bring it back.

Mozilla’s back-button brought it back, but the host was still there. I tried to deactivate this host - same white screen as before.

I tried another click on dustbin and no back or reload of browser’s page.

About 5 hours later ipfire did it’s automatic reboot last night, but the host is still there, now 18 hours after reboot.

How do I get rid of this host? Where is the host stored? It’s not in “hosts”-file

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I can’t reproduce this issue.
Can you supply some more informations?

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Yes, of course.

Host was in green..

“Forgotten host” means an host which is not connected to the network any more.

system is raspi 4b, 8 GB, red, green, blue.

Ipfire runs on 64 GB stick since about 6 months ore more.

Permissions should be?

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I deleted a host on my Raspberry Pi 4. The screen remained white for a few seconds, then the page refreshed and the host was successfully deleted.
Check if there was an error in /var/log/messages at the time of deletion.

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If the WUI page screen went white then it would also be worth looking in

/var/log/httpd/error_log

for messages related to hosts.cgi

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cat /var/log/httpd/error_log

contains startup and shutdown of apache last night and:

“hosts datafile error at /srv/web/ipfire/cgi-bin/hosts.cgi line 166”

/var/log/messages reports firewall rules dropping traffic but nothing about deleting hosts.

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I was able to reproduce this error by modifying the file’s write access /var/ipfire/main/hosts

[Mon Feb 16 21:35:01.814685 2026] [core:notice] [pid 2836:tid 2836] AH00094: Command line: '/usr/sbin/httpd'
hosts datafile error at /srv/web/ipfire/cgi-bin/hosts.cgi line 166.

There was likely an error on your hard drive (or SD card) during the modification.
Check the permissions on this file

[root@ipfire ~]# ls -al /var/ipfire/main/hosts
-rw-r--r-- 1 nobody nobody 271 Feb 13 23:23 /var/ipfire/main/hosts
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