On Thu, Aug 03, 2000 at 10:24:36PM -0700, Crist J . Clark wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 04, 2000 at 12:38:08AM +0100, Jonathan Vaughan wrote:
> > I thought the correct way was to have something like
> >
> > ifconfig_lo0_alias0="inet 10.0.0.1 netmask 0xffffffff"
>
> This is not the correct way. This is a Bad Idea. Don't give the
> loopback any address but 127.0.0.1.
That just being an alias for the loopbaak device. I also have
ifconfig_lo0="inet 127.0.0.1".
Trawling through the mailing list archives, this was advised as what
should be done. in linux I would set up a dummy interface for the IP
address.
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