cant ping external website

Derek Broughton news at pointerstop.ca
Wed Sep 24 14:13:43 UTC 2008


Mark Haney wrote:

> Well for starters never use 127.0.x.x for /anything/ other than the
> loopback.  That's a bad idea.

Jeez, Mark.  That's an Ubuntu default.  127.0.0.1 is set to localhost, and
127.0.1.1 is set to your hostname.  It's perfectly safe - and normal.
> 
> Second we've still not seen a side-by-side comparison to one of one of
> the systems with a 10.x.x.x IP that works and the one that doesn't.

Well, yeah...
-- 
derek





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