On 3/8/21 5:59 PM, antlists wrote:
As I remember, you always had to use eselect to switch versions ... and
witness all the chaos with python at the moment ...
I don't know.
If you leave things "at the default", doesn't that screw you over when
python/kernel/gcc etc upgrade and a depclean
First of all, hi there, just joined the list =)
I'm a bit confused about the net-mail/mu package. On the mu-script
manpage it says that mu ships with several scripts. I emerged it with
the guile flag, but mu barks at me that there is no
/usr/share/mu/scripts file.
If I look with "equery f mu", I
On 3/10/21 10:43 AM, Mark Knecht wrote:
OK, agreed, completely. localhost must be turned into an IP address.
:-)
I guess what I was thinking was DNS means Server. If it's a Service
then that's different. I think we're in agreement that if it can find
the name in /etc/hosts, either actively
On Wed, Mar 10, 2021 at 9:44 AM Grant Taylor <
gtay...@gentoo.tnetconsulting.net> wrote:
>
> On 3/10/21 6:27 AM, Mark Knecht wrote:
> > Caveat - not an expert, just my meager understanding:
> >
> > 1) The name 'localhost' is historically for developers who want to
> > access their own machine
On 3/10/21 9:38 AM, Michael wrote:
I always thought the localhost class A addresses were from days of old
'inter- network' era. The difference with 127.0.0.1 and a private
LAN address is the 127.0.0.1 does not reach the data link layer,
but loops-back at IP layer 3 and responds to any
On 3/10/21 9:00 AM, Mark Knecht wrote:
My undocumented (and unsupported by data) opinion is that this
localhost thing has been around a long, long time - possibly longer
than Linux for all I know. Check out
Yes, very much so.
TL;DR: The "localhost" name is a shortcut to say this host that
On 3/10/21 8:25 AM, Michael wrote:
I think this is relevant to DNS resolution of/with domain controllers
and may depend on the AD/DC topology.
I disagree. Pure Linux in a MIT / Heimdal Kerberos environment has the
same requirements. Hence having nothing specific to do with Active
On 3/10/21 6:27 AM, Mark Knecht wrote:
Caveat - not an expert, just my meager understanding:
1) The name 'localhost' is historically for developers who want to
access their own machine _without_ using DNS.
Eh
Using the /name/ "localhost" still uses name resolution. It could use
DNS or
On Wednesday, 10 March 2021 16:00:19 GMT Mark Knecht wrote:
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>
> > mark@science:~$ cat /etc/hosts
> > 127.0.0.1 localhost
> > 127.0.1.1 science
>
>
> I think this is relevant to DNS resolution of/with domain controllers and
> may
> depend on the AD/DC topology. The idea is to
> mark@science:~$ cat /etc/hosts
> 127.0.0.1 localhost
> 127.0.1.1 science
>
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/windows/it-pro/windows-server-2008-R2-and-2008/ff807362(v=ws.10)?redirectedfrom=MSDN
I haven't over-thought this and there may be more to it, but on a
On Wednesday, 10 March 2021 13:27:24 GMT Mark Knecht wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 9, 2021 at 10:10 PM Grant Taylor <
>
> gtay...@gentoo.tnetconsulting.net> wrote:
> > On 2/21/21 3:23 PM, Grant Taylor wrote:
> > > Will someone please explain why the Gentoo AMD64 Handbook ~> Gentoo (at
> > > large) says to
On Tue, Mar 9, 2021 at 10:10 PM Grant Taylor <
gtay...@gentoo.tnetconsulting.net> wrote:
>
> On 2/21/21 3:23 PM, Grant Taylor wrote:
> > Will someone please explain why the Gentoo AMD64 Handbook ~> Gentoo (at
> > large) says to add the local host name to the 127.0.0.1 (or ::1) entry
> > in the
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