On Sun, Oct 09, 2016 at 11:12:58AM +0200, Hartmut Goebel wrote: 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. IPv6 is something I'm not really familiar with. Presumably there is an equivalent way to do this in IPv6 ?
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