> On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 02:07:52AM +0100, David Jardine wrote: > > To muddy the water a little more, I have > > > > 127.0.0.1 quash localhost loopback > > > > where "quash" is the name of the machine. I don't remember how I came > > to do this, but it must have been from some debian documentation.
On 12.11.06 20:57, Douglas Tutty wrote: > I guess that would be for a computer with no network access (other, I > suppose, than ppp). some time ago I was pondering about this issue, because having 'fnote' (name of by notebook) as first caused problems with some services expecting 127.0.0.1 to map to localhost (which is imho a MUST), and 'hostname -s' returned 'localhost' if localhost was the first one. I waqs searching for some more informations and found out discussion about this on debian-devel, where I found a suggestion use othert loopback-based IP for local host name. -- Matus UHLAR - fantomas, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; http://www.fantomas.sk/ Warning: I wish NOT to receive e-mail advertising to this address. Varovanie: na tuto adresu chcem NEDOSTAVAT akukolvek reklamnu postu. 99 percent of lawyers give the rest a bad name. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
