From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jul 7 11:26:06 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id LAA28784 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 7 Jul 1997 11:26:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rover.village.org (rover.village.org [204.144.255.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id LAA28775 for ; Mon, 7 Jul 1997 11:26:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rover.village.org [127.0.0.1] by rover.village.org with esmtp (Exim 1.60 #1) id 0wlITd-0003wg-00; Mon, 7 Jul 1997 12:25:33 -0600 To: Thomas David Rivers Subject: Re: 127.1 and "localhost" (name resolution problem.) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 06 Jul 1997 21:57:33 EDT." <199707070157.VAA00413@lakes.water.net> References: <199707070157.VAA00413@lakes.water.net> Date: Mon, 07 Jul 1997 12:25:33 -0600 From: Warner Losh Message-Id: Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In message <199707070157.VAA00413@lakes.water.net> Thomas David Rivers writes: : 127.1 localhost.water.net localhost : 127.0.0.1 localhost.water.net localhost :-). And people said that when this change went in, only crusty old farts like me would notice because they couldn't type 10.1 for 10.0.0.1 any more. It should be changed to generate 127.0.0.1 in any event... Warner