Re: Networking, poverty breeds ingenuity

2006-02-07 Thread John Smith
Hi All, after doing some more research, I found out that this is really an open nerve for some people. I wonder why my previous e-mail didn't provoke a flame-war. Probably considered flame-bait. My apologies. It is really a problem to me: undefined ip-addresses in the 127.0.0.0/8

Networking, poverty breeds ingenuity

2006-02-05 Thread John Smith
Hi All, why is the subnet mask of interface lo in sarge defined as /8 (or 255.0.0.0) as, according to TheBonsai on #tcpip RFC3330, page 2 127.0.0.0/8 - This block is assigned for use as the Internet host loopback address. A datagram sent by a higher level protocol to an address anywhere