On Sun, Jul 4, 2010 at 11:00 AM, Doron Bar Zeev <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:doronbr770@gmail.com">doronbr770@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div dir="ltr"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="im"><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);padding-left:1ex">On 07/04/2010 10:34 AM, Timothy Murphy wrote:<br>
> Should the entry from the machine in question<br>
> be given under 127.0.0.1<br>
> or under its IP address on the local LAN?<br>
><br>
127.0.0.1 should only have localhost stuff<br></blockquote></div><div><br>I'm don't think so.<br>[doron@doronpc /]$ cat /etc/hosts<br>127.0.0.1 doronpc.doron.home localhost.localdomain localhost<br> <br>
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</blockquote></div>which is three different ways of referring to localhost, all on the same line for the loopback address, 127.0.0.1, which is exclusively for the use of the local machine.
<div><br></div><div>All other machines will have a line with a subnet address and one or more aliases by which the machine that uses that address might be known:</div><div><br></div><div>192.168.1.13 someotherbox someotherbox.localdomain</div>
<div><br></div><div>or similar.</div><div><br></div><div>Robert.</div>