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From: Ben Cottrell <benco@ucsee.EECS.Berkeley.EDU>
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To: ponds!rivers@dg-rtp.dg.com, tom@sdf.com
Subject: Re: 127.1 and "localhost"  (name resolution problem.)
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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