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lullabudi just noticed that my /etc/hosts file has "127.0.1.1  hostname" as an entry...  anybody know what's up with 127.0.1.1 ?07:29
lullabudit also has 127.0.0.1 localhost07:29
lullabudi've just never see the 127.0.1.1 entry before..07:29
mralphabetthere are several mailing list discussions about it on google08:10
mralphabetjust search for 127.0.1.1 and it will come up08:10
lullabudmralphabet:  yeah, i found a bunch of "bug #" type of posts.  i guess i was hoping for a technical explanation of exactly why they chose to do that...08:37
mralphabetthe best explanation that I could see was "localhost should be the only thing that resolves to 127.0.01, everything else should move through xyz"08:54
mralphabetin this case, xyz = 127.0.1.108:54
lullabudhuh... interesting.  that seems like it's a good idea, actually.09:01
lullabudthanks mralphabet 09:01
coNPwhy is it a good idea?09:02
coNPI mean I think I missed the point09:02
mralphabetI believe, and others would be more qualified to answer then I, that if you have a machine that is on any sort of network, you do not want the machine name to resolve to 127.0.0.1 because the secondary machine may get the wrong answer and try to connect to 127.0.0.1, which would be . . . itself . . . it's preventing the snowball effect09:07
lullabudanother thing is that it offers a way to locally test network changes, specifically firewall changes.09:12
lullabudif you allow connections from localhost as 127.0.0.1 but want to deny others, you could connect to localhost to test your lo, and [hostname]  to test outside access09:13
lullabudi know solaris uses one hostname per physical interface, so it would make sense that logical interfaces would also use that scheme.  but this is linux...09:14
coNPthanks09:23
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Spritzanyone using ubuntu/sparc?11:24
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