Bug#649747: 127.0.1.1 hack is not supported by kFreeBSD
2011/11/23 Samuel Thibault <sthibault@debian.org>:
>> (it remains to be found whether it's true on Hurd pfinet, anyone can
>> find out by running "ping 127.0.1.1"?)
>
> Hurd pfinet uses Linux' stack and indeed uses 255.0.0.0.
Unless I missed something, using a 255.0.0.0 netmask only implies that
packets sent to 127.0.0.0/10 are routed through this interface, not
that we'll respond to packets in that network (except when their
destination address matches our own).
--
Robert Millan
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