Date: Sat, 22 Sep 2001 21:49:05 -0600 From: Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org> To: "Juha Saarinen" <juha@saarinen.org> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: loopback not working for anything other than 127.0.0.1 Message-ID: <200109230349.f8N3n5746094@harmony.village.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 23 Sep 2001 15:22:21 %2B1200." <001201c143de$f4eeb590$0a01a8c0@den2> References: <001201c143de$f4eeb590$0a01a8c0@den2>
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In message <001201c143de$f4eeb590$0a01a8c0@den2> "Juha Saarinen" writes: : :: 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. Or SunOS 3.x, SunOS 4.x, AIX, IRIX, VMS (all the various TCP/IP stacks available), DOS, WIN/NT, 4.2 BSD on a vax, 4.3 BSD on a vax, HP/UX, OSF/1, Ultrix and every single other machine I've ever used since 1985. It didn't used to "work" on Linux. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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