From: Arve Barsnes <arve.barsnes@gmail.com>
To: Gentoo <gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Why do we add the local host name to the 127.0.0.1 / ::1 entry in the /etc/hosts file?
Date: Thu, 25 Feb 2021 08:02:38 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJjrzcUO86zfSTs31T8YweFFA542RCYmKwSaVUCAXDQ=G0Z67w@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9b62c79e-0b0e-d02a-5099-ee1b82734996@spamtrap.tnetconsulting.net>
On Thu, 25 Feb 2021 at 03:50, Grant Taylor
<gtaylor@gentoo.tnetconsulting.net> wrote:
> > The loopback address is just that: the machine talking to itself, with
> > no reference to the outside world. Whereas, while talking to other
> > machines on the network its address is that of the interface. There's
> > no connection between those two.
>
> That doesn't explain /why/ the local host name is added to the line
> containing 127.0.0.1 and / or ::1.
I don't think that was the question Peter sought to answer, but rather
that 'hostname -i' returns the loopback address either way.
Might still defy logic depending on the way you look at it, but that's
a different question.
Regards,
Arve
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-02-25 7:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-02-21 22:23 [gentoo-user] Why do we add the local host name to the 127.0.0.1 / ::1 entry in the /etc/hosts file? Grant Taylor
2021-02-22 6:20 ` Andrew Udvare
2021-02-25 2:37 ` Peter Humphrey
2021-02-25 2:50 ` Grant Taylor
2021-02-25 7:02 ` Arve Barsnes [this message]
2021-02-25 7:33 ` Grant Taylor
2021-03-10 5:09 ` Grant Taylor
2021-03-10 13:27 ` Mark Knecht
2021-03-10 15:25 ` Michael
2021-03-10 16:00 ` Mark Knecht
2021-03-10 16:38 ` Michael
2021-03-10 17:07 ` Grant Taylor
2021-03-10 17:01 ` Grant Taylor
2021-03-10 16:58 ` Grant Taylor
2021-03-11 13:38 ` Michael
2021-03-11 16:50 ` Grant Taylor
2021-03-12 19:04 ` Michael
2021-03-13 19:01 ` Grant Taylor
2021-03-16 12:16 ` Michael
2021-03-16 12:33 ` Peter Humphrey
2021-03-16 18:54 ` Grant Taylor
2021-03-11 17:04 ` Grant Taylor
2021-03-10 16:44 ` Grant Taylor
2021-03-10 17:43 ` Mark Knecht
2021-03-10 18:37 ` Grant Taylor
2021-03-11 10:54 ` Wols Lists
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