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Re: Contents of /etc/hosts
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John Darrington |
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Re: Contents of /etc/hosts |
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Sun, 9 Oct 2016 11:56:36 +0200 |
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On Sun, Oct 09, 2016 at 11:12:58AM +0200, Hartmut Goebel wrote:
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.
IPv6 is something I'm not really familiar with. Presumably there is an
equivalent way to do this in IPv6 ?
J'
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