On Sat, 4 Oct 2014, Clemens Lang wrote: > > [...] but the address of a highly available open DNS server like > > 8.8.8.8 should do the trick just as well. > > I'd suggest using an address in 127./8 with the exception of 127.0.0.1 > instead. The whole 127./8 is reserved for loopback use.
Folks, NEVER make up your own IP address! You may not notice the impact, but others will. FWIW, 8.8.8.8 belongs to Level 3 (the whole 8/8 does, in fact), in turn assigned to Google (8.8.8/24). The RFC1918 addresses are there for a reason... -- Dave _______________________________________________ macports-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-users
