cant ping external website
Derek Broughton
news at pointerstop.ca
Fri Sep 26 16:00:23 UTC 2008
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
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