cant ping external website

[Derek Broughton]

Mark Haney wrote:

> 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.

Now try: "sudo anything"

(actually, it works, but it keeps sending annoying security emails about the
host not being found)

> 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.

Yes, that's true.
-- 
derek