On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 2:33 PM, Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sun, Feb 3, 2013 at 11:32 AM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckin...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> For the first one, host is 127.0.0.1, wizard validates it as saves it as >> "localhost". >> For the second one, host is again entered as 172.0.0.1, which is a >> different string to "localhost", validation succeeds and config is >> written to prefs.js. Ha-ha! Gotcha motherfucker! Your stupid front end >> validation didn't think of that! > > Similar to what I did, but added /etc/hosts entries so i have > localhost localhost2 localhost3 localhost4 and so on. All pointing to > the same IP. :) >
If you run /sbin/ip route show, you should see this in your routing table: 127.0.0.0/8 via 127.0.0.1 dev lo You have an entire /8 devoted to localhost. 127.0.0.1 goes to the same place as 127.15.0.0, 127.11.10.1, etc... -- :wq
