Hostname funniness

Thu Nov 18 12:11:21 CST 2004

On Thu, 2004-11-18 at 12:54 -0500, 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
> > 
> > 
> > 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?

127/8 is localnet. If you `sudo ifconfig lo', you'll find that interface
is listening to the whole /8, not just 127.0.0.1 (i.e. it has a mask of
255.0.0.0).

As for RFC references - RFC3330, page 2 and, by extension, RFC1700, page
5.

Regards,

Adam