cant ping external website

[Mark Haney]

Derek Broughton wrote:
> 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...

You must understand, I don't use Ubuntu myself and haven't since the 
very first couple of versions.  Even then, it was more, yeah, this is 
okay, next....


With that said, I still think it's silly to do that.  Back in the day 
(like '93/4) that was considered taboo.  So I don't do it.



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