Date: Sun, 6 Jul 1997 22:43:42 -0700 From: Ben Cottrell <benco@ucsee.EECS.Berkeley.EDU> To: ponds!rivers@dg-rtp.dg.com, tom@sdf.com Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 127.1 and "localhost" (name resolution problem.) Message-ID: <199707070543.WAA05484@ucsee.EECS.Berkeley.EDU>
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> I suspect that you put it there. The last change to the /etc/hosts file > was made in 96/03/20. Not so fast, there :-) 127.1 *was* standard in BSD /etc/hosts files for a long time. I couldn't tell you at what release FreeBSD changed over, but it's not something to be dismissed as pilot error. People can and will have incompatibilities of this sort when they upgrade. ~Ben
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