On Thu, 25 Feb 2021 at 03:50, Grant Taylor <[email protected]> wrote: > > The loopback address is just that: the machine talking to itself, with > > no reference to the outside world. Whereas, while talking to other > > machines on the network its address is that of the interface. There's > > no connection between those two. > > That doesn't explain /why/ the local host name is added to the line > containing 127.0.0.1 and / or ::1.
I don't think that was the question Peter sought to answer, but rather that 'hostname -i' returns the loopback address either way. Might still defy logic depending on the way you look at it, but that's a different question. Regards, Arve
