Hostname funniness

[Brent Cook]

On Thu, 18 Nov 2004, Dmitriy Kropivnitskiy wrote:

> On Thu, 2004-11-18 at 18:36 +0100, Thomas Hood wrote:
>> On Thu, 2004-11-18 at 18:30, Dmitriy Kropivnitskiy wrote:
>>> Exactly my point. 127.0.1.1 is NEVER reachable
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>> No?  Try pinging it.
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> Always something new. Why does this address answers? Why cannot I see in
> the list of interfaces? Can you point me to a relevant RFC?

Does this work?

busterb at ozma:~$ /sbin/ifconfig lo
lo        Link encap:Local Loopback
           inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
           inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
           UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
           RX packets:54888 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
           TX packets:54888 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
           collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
           RX bytes:10890703 (10.3 Mb)  TX bytes:10890703 (10.3 Mb)

>> Programs that need to contact the local host by name can be configured
>> to use the name 'localhost'.
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> Unless the program is trying to figure out the name automagicaly.
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