From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Sep 23 13:12: 8 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from tholian.securitydynamics.com (mail.rsasecurity.com [204.167.112.129]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 77F0E37B40A for ; Sun, 23 Sep 2001 13:12:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sdtihq24.securitydynamics.com by tholian.securitydynamics.com via smtpd (for hub.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.18]) with SMTP; 23 Sep 2001 20:09:05 UT Received: from ebola.securitydynamics.com (ebola.securid.com [192.168.7.4]) by sdtihq24.securid.com (Pro-8.9.3/Pro-8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA06304 for ; Sun, 23 Sep 2001 16:12:00 -0400 (EDT) Received: from spirit.dynas.se (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ebola.securitydynamics.com (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.1) with SMTP id QAA13158 for ; Sun, 23 Sep 2001 16:11:58 -0400 (EDT) Received: (qmail 16566 invoked from network); 23 Sep 2001 20:11:57 -0000 Received: from explorer.rsa.com (10.81.217.59) by spirit.dynas.se with SMTP; 23 Sep 2001 20:11:57 -0000 Received: (from mikko@localhost) by explorer.rsa.com (8.11.6/8.11.3) id f8NKBtr74906; Sun, 23 Sep 2001 13:11:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mikko) Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2001 13:11:55 -0700 (PDT) From: Mikko Tyolajarvi Message-Id: <200109232011.f8NKBtr74906@explorer.rsa.com> To: juha@saarinen.org Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: loopback not working for anything other than 127.0.0.1 Newsgroups: local.freebsd.stable References: <20010922231931.L24981@pir.net> <001201c143de$f4eeb590$0a01a8c0@den2> X-Newsreader: NN version 6.5.6 (NOV) Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In local.freebsd.stable you write: >:: Linux does all sorts of things differently from everyone else, why >:: would this be any different ? >Just curious... maybe they've got a GNU loopback interface? ;-)) > >:: 127.0.0.2 does not respond by default on any UNIX flavor I >:: have access >:: to immediately - FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Solaris, OSF1, etc. >Not on BSDi 4.1 either. But on HP/SUX 11. I wonder what the intended purpose of this behaviour might be...? $.02, /Mikko -- Mikko Työläjärvi_______________________________________mikko@rsasecurity.com RSA Security To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message