cant ping external website
Mark Haney
mhaney at ercbroadband.org
Wed Sep 24 17:23:00 UTC 2008
Derek Broughton wrote:
> Mark Haney wrote:
>
>> Rashkae wrote:
>>> Mark Haney wrote:
>>>
>>>> Well for starters never use 127.0.x.x for /anything/ other than the
>>>> loopback. That's a bad idea.
>>>>
>>> Actually, that's the Debian/Ubuntu default.
>>>
>>> 127.0.0.1 localhost
>>> 127.0.1.1 $myhostname
>>>
>>> 'tis all good.
>>>
>> Seriously? Why? That's just silly. And a bad idea.
>
> No, it's not.
Well, let's agree to disagree. Thing might have changed between then
and now, but I still don't like it.
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