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Re: hosts file entry for 127.0.1.1



On Sat, 2015-02-28 at 15:23 -0700, Bob Proulx wrote: 
> Software there asks, who am I?  They then pass the
> IP address around.
Software doing this is simply broken.

Nothing guarantees (nor any standard demands) that the hostname actually
resolves to anything, not to talk about a valid public IP address.


Cheers,
Chris.

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