Am 08.10.2016 um 16:08 schrieb John Darrington: > > 127.0.0.2 gambrinus > Now what happens if you "ping gambrinus"? > > ICMP packets will be sent to the local host.
Me fool. of course it does: the loopback interface has netmask /8 )defined in RFC 990 https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc990 But for IPv6 the loopback interface has ::1/128, this ::2 would not got there. So if we follow your proposal adding "127.0.0.2 gambrius" to /etc/hosts, we could not contently doe this for IPv6. -- Regards Hartmut Goebel | Hartmut Goebel | h.goe...@crazy-compilers.com | | www.crazy-compilers.com | compilers which you thought are impossible |
