-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Dec 21, 2003 at 04:07:29AM +0200, Micha Feigin wrote: > 127.0.0.1 is a reserved IP always pointing to the local computer. You > could even do ping 127.0.0.1 on you windows machines to ping themselves > (another way is to use the reserved name localhost).
More specifically, all of 127.0.0.0/8 is localhost. I wonder what the rationale was to overshoot that badly on that allocation when a much smaller subnet would have been better... - -- .''`. Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' : `. `'` proud Debian admin and user `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fix a system -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/5SC5UzgNqloQMwcRAuDPAJ9erUVqNtePM7nQ/fEDA3+CuWEdggCePVXv PELO0M3MIsMRxgWFjLboaTw= =nPh/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
