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[Mark Haney]

NoOp wrote:

>> Well for starters never use 127.0.x.x for /anything/ other than the 
>> loopback.  That's a bad idea.
> 
> isn't helpful. Particularly when Ubuntu uses 127.0.1.1 at installation
> default.
> 

Okay, taken out of context, it probably isn't helpful.  Point taken.

> 
> In _Ubuntu_ removing and/or misconfiguring 127.0.1.1 can cause startup
> delays and a multitude of other issues (including breaking
> update-manager, gksu, password authentication etc - search launchpad etc
> for details).
> 
> 

However, that fact that Ubuntu does something like that, that no other 
OS (and unless I see a default Debian install do that, I'm not buying 
it.) seems to do, then I think it's a misconfiguration.  In fact, at 
lunch I pulled that line from my Mother's Hardy and rebooted it and it 
came up just like it should.

So, obviously Ubuntu is doing something that a majority of other Linux 
distros don't.  Why?  Who knows.  There's certainly no point in having a 
/second/ loopback IP when the hostname can quite comfrotably sit on the 
same line as 127.0.0.1 without any trouble at all.

Regardless, this wasn't the cause of his trouble, so I consider this 
thread closed.  It's getting OT anyway.




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