Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1998 15:29:50 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> To: Kevin <kevinw@charleston.quik.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Loopback... Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.00.9808181528490.19286-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980818172419.19093A-100000@floydfan.dyn.ml.org>
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On Tue, 18 Aug 1998, Kevin wrote: > I would like to start off by saying, I quit using Linux a long, long time > ago.. FreeBSD is a far superior environment. Period. I do have a > question, and yes, FreeBSD is compared to Linux (just for example purposes > only, so please don't get mad.) In Linux, I can type in> > > % telnet ppp12345.aolsucks.com > "ppp12345.aolsucks.com" being my current dynamic address. > > <and that will let me telnet to my own machine without problem. > > However, in FreeBSD, I have to type> > > % telnet localhost > > <for me to telnet to myself [just for testing purposes btw]. > I was told that the only way a computer to talk to itself over the > internet, was through loopback. Obviously, though, I could through Linux > without loopback compiled into the kernel. How can I get the same results > (not having to type localhost, but my IP address instead) for FreeBSD? The problem may be that ppp12345.aolsucks.com isn't a real address, or your DNS isn't configured correctly. FreeBSD does everything in it's power to keep you from wasting network bandwidth doing local connections. It installs a route that will redirect connections to your local IP to the loopback IP instead, so telnetting to yourself is identical to doing 'telnet localhost'. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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