On Fri, 2011-08-19 at 07:33 +0200, Andre Speelmans wrote: > only listening on 127.0.0.1. This is only a local interface. You > will find it on every machine (not just Linux, also Windows). It is an > IP that allows the machine to talk to itself and can not be reached by > any other machine. (For some more fun: everything in 127.x.y.z is the > local machine, even if an ifconfig won't list them.)
Otherwise known as the local loopback... It's the computer's way of saying "myself." -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -r 2.6.27.25-78.2.56.fc9.i686 Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
