On Thu, 06 Oct 2005, Gabor Gombas wrote: > It's being long-standing does not mean it's correct. I started looking
But it means it is a de-facto standard, which it *is*. Every *nix system I have mucked around with in the last five years, with the exception of a few Linux distributions, uses plain "localhost". > DNS administrators, and _nothing_ about /etc/hosts. Therefore I'd be /etc/hosts is a local implementation detail, it won't make it to RFCs while there is still a bit of sanity in the world. It is probably in a POSIX-like standard, though. > inclined to say that if an application does not accept 127.0.0.1 being > resolved to e.g. "foo" then it is is broken, and this is not changed by > the fact that it has been broken for 20+ years. That is correct, yes. -- "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot Henrique Holschuh -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
