Re: /etc/hosts and resolving of the local host/domainname - 127.0.0.1 vs. 127.0.1.1
> On Wed, 2013-07-31 at 01:30 +0100, Steve Langasek wrote:
> > That's correct. If you want to talk to a loopback-only service,
> > you should be connecting to 'localhost', *not* to the hostname.
[Christoph Anton Mitterer]
> Well why not? Imagine that one server in a cluster serves a debian
> package repo (e.g. via http)...
That doesn't sound like a "loopback-only service" at all.
> - let the webserver listen as well on 127.0.1.1,... sure that works but
> it's rather ugly to make such special handling... and not all services
> are even able to bind to multiple addresses.
Special handling? No, I'm pretty sure the default for all web servers
in Debian is to listen on INADDR_ANY. That's not special handling at
all. Special handling would be to listen on 11.22.33.44 and 127.0.0.1
specifically.
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