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From: Michael Mol <mikemol@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Creating accounts in Thunderbird
Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2013 15:15:33 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CA+czFiAxt+iQh1Q0dmRGbYSMNRoVCKDtcagHprT63VGd2eBHDQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAEH5T2PUEUScAgy=m3X3D2uFbxDix4wNiSeh75nR9Gbf6MHXiQ@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 2:33 PM, Paul Hartman
<paul.hartman+gentoo@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 3, 2013 at 11:32 AM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> wrote:
>> For the first one, host is 127.0.0.1, wizard validates it as saves it as
>> "localhost".
>> For the second one, host is again entered as 172.0.0.1, which is a
>> different string to "localhost", validation succeeds and config is
>> written to prefs.js. Ha-ha! Gotcha motherfucker! Your stupid front end
>> validation didn't think of that!
>
> Similar to what I did, but added /etc/hosts entries so i have
> localhost localhost2 localhost3 localhost4 and so on. All pointing to
> the same IP. :)
>

If you run /sbin/ip route show, you should see this in your routing table:

127.0.0.0/8 via 127.0.0.1 dev lo

You have an entire /8 devoted to localhost. 127.0.0.1 goes to the same
place as 127.15.0.0, 127.11.10.1, etc...


--
:wq


  reply	other threads:[~2013-02-04 20:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-02-03 11:51 [gentoo-user] Creating accounts in Thunderbird Alan McKinnon
2013-02-03 12:30 ` Michael Hampicke
2013-02-03 12:32   ` Alan McKinnon
2013-02-03 12:37     ` Michael Hampicke
2013-02-03 12:54       ` Alan McKinnon
2013-02-03 13:05         ` Michael Hampicke
2013-02-03 14:08           ` Alan McKinnon
2013-02-03 14:28             ` Michael Hampicke
2013-02-03 17:32               ` Alan McKinnon
2013-02-04 19:33                 ` Paul Hartman
2013-02-04 20:15                   ` Michael Mol [this message]
2013-02-07 15:55             ` Tanstaafl
2013-02-07 20:28               ` Alan McKinnon
2013-02-07 21:07                 ` Tanstaafl
2013-02-09 20:09                   ` Alan McKinnon
2013-02-07 23:43 ` [gentoo-user] " walt
2013-02-08  7:23   ` Alan McKinnon

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