Hostname funniness
Dmitriy Kropivnitskiy
nigde at mitechki.net
Thu Nov 18 11:54:10 CST 2004
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
>
>
> No? Try pinging it.
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?
> Programs that need to contact the local host by name can be configured
> to use the name 'localhost'.
Unless the program is trying to figure out the name automagicaly.
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