Am 09.10.2016 um 11:56 schrieb John Darrington:
> 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 ?
I don't think we can use somehting like "::2 gamrius" for IPv6. I did
not find documentation for this when In did a short Internet search but:
* According to some sources, the loopback interface address is ::1/128,
which would be the same as 127.0.0.1/32. Thus this loopback is a kind of
point-to-point interface in IPv6, where as in IPv4 it "accepts" a /8
network.
* "/sbin/ip -6 route" says:
unreachable ::/96 dev lo metric 1024 error -113 pref medium
So when sending a packet to ::2 this will simply be discard.
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