On Sat, May 31, 2003 at 10:55:13AM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: > On a laptop with a sometimes disconnected PCMCIA network card you > might find this very inconvenient. The first configuration above will > always use the loopback address and will always be able to talk to > itself even if the network is offline since the loopback is always > available.
Well, i think if an application want to talk to itself it should use localhost anyway. I do not know of any applications which talk to itself via hostname. Greetings Bernd -- (OO) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ( .. ) [EMAIL PROTECTED],linux.de,debian.org} http://home.pages.de/~eckes/ o--o *plush* 2048/93600EFD [EMAIL PROTECTED] +497257930613 BE5-RIPE (O____O) When cryptography is outlawed, bayl bhgynjf jvyy unir cevinpl!
