Kim Goldenberg wrote:
Alan Altmark wrote:
On Sunday, 09/14/2008 at 05:36 EDT, Patrick Spinler
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Uhm, I'm coming to this discussion late, but aren't all 127.0.0.0/8
addresses defined to be loopback?
Yes, I mentioned that in an early post on the subject. That's one of the
reasons it makes no sense. But we still don't know precisely *why* the
change was made, so the results of the discussion remain inconclusive.
One item I found on a Gentoo wiki suggests the .2 is created if one uses
DHCP to get their real address.
<http://gentoo-wiki.com/Talk:TIP_Setup_Your_FQDN>
well,
1. That document is rather old
2. Whether things works that way depends on the distro and in particular
the DHCP client scripts.
3. What is appropriate for a home LAN is not necessarily appropriate for
an Enterprise network.
Maybe that's the reason for it. My Ubuntu 8.04 system, with a static IP
address, has the host names on 127.0.1.1 in my /etc/hosts!
Kim
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