On Fri, 4 Nov 2005 21:22:40 +1300, Nick Rout wrote: > > No, but on a box with a single IP address, it makes life a lot easier.
> on my box (1 ethernet and loopback up and one wireless down) it gives > 127.0.0.1 > > Seems a bit hit and miss. I've just tried it on four machines, one of them returned 127.0.0.1. it turns out that one had 127.0.0.1 localhost trillian in /etc/hosts. removing trillian, the box's name, made hostname -i give the right answer. > A machine with one IP address usually has no outside network > connection, only 127.0.0.1 I meant one non-local IP address, surely the most common configuration, this discussion would be pointless for a non-networked machine. -- Neil Bothwick Only an idiot actually READS taglines.
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