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Re: Contents of /etc/hosts
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Hartmut Goebel |
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Re: Contents of /etc/hosts |
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Sun, 9 Oct 2016 11:12:58 +0200 |
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Am 08.10.2016 um 16:08 schrieb John Darrington:
> > 127.0.0.2 gambrinus
> Now what happens if you "ping gambrinus"?
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> ICMP packets will be sent to the local host.
Me fool. of course it does: the loopback interface has netmask /8
)defined in RFC 990 https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc990
But for IPv6 the loopback interface has ::1/128, this ::2 would not got
there.
So if we follow your proposal adding "127.0.0.2 gambrius" to /etc/hosts,
we could not contently doe this for IPv6.
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Hartmut Goebel
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