Alan Altmark wrote:
On Thursday, 09/11/2008 at 10:39 EDT, Michael
MacIsaac/Poughkeepsie/[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I can see how SuSE/Novell can argue that it is a valid value (i.e.
"working as designed"), but if it affects important applications such as
SAP and DB2, I can see how it might be viewed as a bug by the customer.
I can't see how they can argue that at all. While it wasn't manually
Who?
added by the user, it still smells of some special one-off for some
strange app that is binding to 127.0.0.2 (a hidden web server?). Adding
Big secret:
09:06 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ ping -R -c3 127.2.3.4
PING 127.2.3.4 (127.2.3.4) 56(124) bytes of data.
64 bytes from 127.2.3.4: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.085 ms
RR: 127.2.3.4
127.2.3.4
127.2.3.4
127.2.3.4
64 bytes from 127.2.3.4: icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=0.072 ms (same route)
64 bytes from 127.2.3.4: icmp_seq=3 ttl=64 time=0.075 ms (same route)
--- 127.2.3.4 ping statistics ---
3 packets transmitted, 3 received, 0% packet loss, time 1998ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 0.072/0.077/0.085/0.009 ms
09:07 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$
I found at some time ago, when I wanted a webserver on its own IP
address on my laptop, that Linux treats all the 127.x.y.z addresses
(that I tried) the same.
the hostname to /etc/hosts allows the traditional daemon reverse-lookup to
work and report the local host name instead of the more traditional
"localhost". I'd argue that I'd rather see the resolver changed to return
the defined hostname instead of localhost than have spurious entries in
/etc/hosts. Shouldn't 127.0.0.3 resolve to the same name?
Has anyone opened a problem with Novell, asking why they added it?
If it's a new standard, I'd like to see the reference to the standard.
Alan Altmark
z/VM Development
IBM Endicott
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