cant ping external website

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On 09/24/2008 08:40 AM, Mark Haney wrote:
> 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....

Can you please clarify? You do not use Ubuntu yet you are offering
advise on an Ubuntu support mailing list?

> 
> 
> 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.

Cite please.

This has been the standard with debian (upon which Ubuntu is based) for
some time. See:

http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/reference/ch-gateway.en.html#s-net-dns