Re: Bug#3143: sysvinit init.d/network script buglet
lukas@teorica0.ifisicacu.unam.mx (Lukas Nellen) wrote on 29.05.96 in <[🔎] 199605291715.MAA00401@snork.ifisicacu.unam.mx>:
> >>>>> "MvS" == Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl> writes:
MvS>> By the way, there is nothing to be gained by routing the whole 127 net
MvS>> over "lo"; it still only reacts to 127.0.0.1.
> My system, running either 1.3.64 or 1.99.8=pre2.0.8, responds to all
> addresses in the 127 net as soon as I put in
> route add -net 127.0.0.0
> I have tried both ping and finger on a random address in the loopback
> net (not that I have any idea why I want to use an address besides
> 127.0.0.1 - but then, there are lots of things I don't know :-) ).
The important thing is not that ping 127.128.129.130 works. The important
thing is that it doesn't produce a packet on any ethernet, ppp or what-
have-you link.
MfG Kai
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