Re: /etc/hosts and resolving of the local host/domainname - 127.0.0.1 vs. 127.0.1.1
On 2013-07-31 11:00:24 +0200, Vincent Bernat wrote:
> ❦ 31 juillet 2013 09:46 CEST, Thomas Goirand <zigo@debian.org> :
> > He did wrote it. 127.0.1.1 breaks because some daemon (many, according
> > to him) bind only on 127.0.0.1, and not 127.0.0.0/8 as they should.
>
> How a daemon could bind to 127.0.0.0/8? bind() only takes an IP address.
Perhaps Thomas actually meant accept any address, then drop those
outside 127.0.0.0/8? But this wouldn't necessarily solve the
mentioned "problem" anyway.
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