> On Jan 4, 2015, at 10:46 AM, Brandon Allbery <allber...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Sun, Jan 4, 2015 at 10:34 AM, René J.V. <rjvber...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sunday January 04 2015 09:05:42 Brandon Allbery wrote: > > >From the standpoint of DNS, "localhost" is fully qualified: it is not the > >short form of a name that is meaningful only in the context of a particular > >domain. > > AFAIK you need an entry in /etc/hosts in order for "localhost" to be defined, > no? > > BIND9 at least comes with a local zone definition that includes "localhost." > as a name, with the usual mapping. That said, people *usually* get it from > /etc/hosts... *but* OS X is a little weird in how/when it uses the hosts file.
If one believes the contents of /etc/hosts -- OSX only consults it at boot time. Historically, OSX loaded all of the various "unix like" plain-text information files into a database. (NIS maybe?) I haven't played extensively with this sort of stuff since I retired back in 2003, (Apple makes it so easy to forget) but I assume that OSX (NeXTStep) has not "gotten closer" to UNIX(tm), but continued on its divergent path. T.T.F.N. William H. Magill mag...@icloud.com mag...@mac.com whmag...@gmail.com _______________________________________________ macports-users mailing list macports-users@lists.macosforge.org https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-users
