On 4/3/25 07:49, Dan Purgert wrote:
On Apr 02, 2025, David Wright wrote:On Wed 02 Apr 2025 at 09:12:24 (-0400), gene heskett wrote:[...] Experimenting I find the duplication does not seem to generate an error, other than I now had to ping itself by address, since the name is now found at 127.0.1.1 by pings lookup?That's what you want: as the address is in the 127.0.0.0 network, pinging it will ping itself, and it gets a reply. It doesn't require your LAN to be set up, and AIUI it's like localhost (127.0.0.1) in that it doesn't touch the network hardware.Indeed, the entirety of 127.0.0.0/8 is the virtual loopback adapter (i.e. "localhost").
IOW the name associated is a throwaway, could be "me.coyote.den"? Works. Thank you Dan.
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