On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 11:47:00AM -0400, James Carlson wrote: > Garrett D'Amore wrote: > > On 5/25/2010 6:56 AM, PRDEEP KUMAR wrote: > >> Hi Experts, > >> > >> Am new to the networking.Is there any specific reason why > >> only 127.0.0.1 is used as a loop back address,why not other addresses. > > > > You could use any other 127 address, I suppose (and > > I've done so), but I suspect 127.0.0.1 is so firmly entrenched in the > > minds of admins and developers that you'd probably find things that > > break if you tried a different address. > I don't know of anyone who has changed lo0's address away from 127.0.0.1 > ... nor any reason to do so. I suspect that wasn't the original > poster's intent, though.
I guess the original poster was asking because IIRC, Ubuntu now comes configured out of the box with more than one loopback. I don't have an Ubuntu box handy, but googling brought me to an /etc/hosts that would have something that looks like this: 127.0.0.1 localhost 127.0.1.1 yourhostname HTH _______________________________________________ networking-discuss mailing list networking-discuss@opensolaris.org
