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Re: /etc/hosts and resolving of the local host/domainname - 127.0.0.1 vs. 127.0.1.1



On 07/31/2013 06:47 PM, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> 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?

Correct.

> But this wouldn't necessarily solve the
> mentioned "problem" anyway.

I'm not sure there's a problem anyway. I'm on the side of Steve, which
is I think the current setup works quite well. Our users can do a
minimum of configuration, that's what I expect from anyone running a
server/daemon anyway (things who are aimed at our users should be using
localhost anyway).

Thomas


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