On 3/27/06, Jerry McBride <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: .. > The localhost is not a service.... it's an ip. > > Jerry ..
Jerry, I'm not understanding the signicance of that. Ping is resolving localhost to the ip, yes? [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ ping localhost PING hawat.thufir.invalid (127.0.0.1) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from hawat.thufir.invalid (127.0.0.1): icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.084 ms 64 bytes from hawat.thufir.invalid (127.0.0.1): icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=0.072 ms 64 bytes from hawat.thufir.invalid (127.0.0.1): icmp_seq=3 ttl=64 time=0.077 ms --- hawat.thufir.invalid ping statistics --- 3 packets transmitted, 3 received, 0% packet loss, time 1998ms rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 0.072/0.077/0.084/0.011 ms [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ telnet localhost Trying 127.0.0.1... telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ telnet 127.0.0.1 Trying 127.0.0.1... telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ date thanks, Thufir -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
