On Thu, 26 Jul 2001, Gilles Detillieux wrote:
> According to Geoff Hutchison:
> > At 8:09 AM -0400 7/18/01, Aaron Guy Davies wrote:
> > >OK, I've got the damn thing fixed. It works when I access it with
> > >http://0.0.0.0/, but not http://localhost/ or http://127.0.0.1/. I thought
> > >these were all equivalents! What's going on?
> >
> > I can test this out on Mac OS X myself, but I guess another question
> > is whether you have a firewall set up on the machine?
> >
> > In any case, it's certainly possible that the browser has code to
> > make "localhost" translate to whatever works. Have you tried
> > accessing 127.0.0.1 in the browser?
>
> I'd never heard of 0.0.0.0 being equivalent to 127.0.0.1 before. If your
> system doesn't recognize localhost or 127.0.0.1 as the loopback device
> address, you've got a misconfiguration somewhere.
Apparently, 0.0.0.0 actually means any address or something like that. I
suppose it connects to the first thing it finds. Where would loopback be
configured?
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