John Stracke wrote:No, as in a string of 0s. If you set up your own isolated network, you can make one host be 1::1 and the other 1::2.
Jeroen Massar wrote:
:: is your friend. If you're building an ad hoc, point-to-point network, you can pick convenient addresses.Ad-hoc networks are another similar case, where two machines are connected via ad-hoc wireless, bluetooth, firewire,
or similar.
In any other way do you like remembering and typing over 128bit addresses?? :)
:: as in all 0's which corresponds to 'not bound'?
It seems pretty obvious: no OS can require a unique hostname at install time, because it has no way of checking uniqueness. The Unices I've installed (various versions of Solaris and Linux), even if they prompt for a hostname, will accept the default of "localhost.localdomain". In addition, many, many machines (especially those bought preinstalled) are installed from standardized images, and have standardized hostnames.And is there any reasoned argument instead of the simple 'false'?Most OS's require a (unique) hostname to be entered/automaticallyFalse.
generated on install
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