From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6563513885D for ; Mon, 4 Feb 2013 20:15:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A6D9FE0384; Mon, 4 Feb 2013 20:15:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ea0-f177.google.com (mail-ea0-f177.google.com [209.85.215.177]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 22773E00B2 for ; Mon, 4 Feb 2013 20:15:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-ea0-f177.google.com with SMTP id n13so2827816eaa.22 for ; Mon, 04 Feb 2013 12:15:33 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:x-received:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id :subject:from:to:content-type; bh=8KJbudv8PFp1TzkTAXPmlCGotKZcTsaCfFCkQT8prV4=; b=jSoa8rByNkI7KPX/GN3FxE4865Y+YSxsrsohuA7DKqi9noq+nwd59RE9g32svZ1z6J zL8SEe6oTsrDXe59kTMQO4mhNkpwxPBcNAza8i7CkP9vAtp8BUougv9mm3qUBDhrpscp Am6QsywWiWszQpWUUX5E+P1ymf4CbyjazmIkEs19au9QJ/9UoSJxS/7D2MA57aaLC+U9 Gej4duW4zC7O++hwECcw5K6+ofYcl3whVfuK7t+pDV8KtPqANgrPV44qRisHIuxDYUIq 6OWdfc0dmZxt9aI3jK4fRLq43vNgwUsWjMb72A8znKgHEW27jCx6lVeBEPqI6uha49Yl it6g== Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.14.2.196 with SMTP id 44mr75918302eef.25.1360008933563; Mon, 04 Feb 2013 12:15:33 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.14.45.3 with HTTP; Mon, 4 Feb 2013 12:15:33 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: References: <510E4F56.1080703@gmail.com> <510E584E.3090902@hadt.biz> <510E58C8.8080504@gmail.com> <510E59F9.3010308@hadt.biz> <510E5E00.5060209@gmail.com> <510E608F.9050207@hadt.biz> <510E6F4C.5050609@gmail.com> <510E7419.4020400@hadt.biz> <510E9F44.7060709@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2013 15:15:33 -0500 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Creating accounts in Thunderbird From: Michael Mol To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Archives-Salt: 560e082a-2675-4e1c-8e10-208ed69fd683 X-Archives-Hash: 9ea57c78cee03d1db7d0f5f9b1bc1771 On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 2:33 PM, Paul Hartman wrote: > On Sun, Feb 3, 2013 at 11:32 AM, Alan McKinnon 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