From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: John Darrington Subject: Re: Contents of /etc/hosts Date: Sun, 9 Oct 2016 11:56:36 +0200 Message-ID: <20161009095635.GA22834@jocasta.intra> References: <20161005183147.GA32276@jocasta.intra> <57F61869.10400@goebel-consult.de> <20161008140838.GA5979@jocasta.intra> <57FA0A1A.7040905@crazy-compilers.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="/04w6evG8XlLl3ft" Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:47550) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1btAqk-0006fq-Jx for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 09 Oct 2016 05:56:55 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1btAqf-000675-Ko for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 09 Oct 2016 05:56:53 -0400 Received: from de.cellform.com ([88.217.224.109]:57264 helo=jocasta.intra) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1btAqf-00061u-Cu for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 09 Oct 2016 05:56:49 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <57FA0A1A.7040905@crazy-compilers.com> List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: Hartmut Goebel Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org --/04w6evG8XlLl3ft Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, Oct 09, 2016 at 11:12:58AM +0200, Hartmut Goebel wrote: Am 08.10.2016 um 16:08 schrieb John Darrington: > > 127.0.0.2 gambrinus > Now what happens if you "ping gambrinus"? > =20 > ICMP packets will be sent to the local host. =20 Me fool. of course it does: the loopback interface has netmask /8 )defined in RFC 990 https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc990 =20 But for IPv6 the loopback interface has ::1/128, this ::2 would not got there. =20 So if we follow your proposal adding "127.0.0.2 gambrius" to /etc/host= s, we could not contently doe this for IPv6. =20 IPv6 is something I'm not really familiar with. Presumably there is an=20 equivalent way to do this in IPv6 ? J' =20 --=20 Avoid eavesdropping. Send strong encrypted email. PGP Public key ID: 1024D/2DE827B3=20 fingerprint =3D 8797 A26D 0854 2EAB 0285 A290 8A67 719C 2DE8 27B3 See http://sks-keyservers.net or any PGP keyserver for public key. --/04w6evG8XlLl3ft Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 iEYEARECAAYFAlf6FFMACgkQimdxnC3oJ7Mp8wCbBSClh3KGYiJL83zL7le8Sm1Y rdkAn2+AIiz+cNnGmPkfjBb4X/8vyGw2 =FybB -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --/04w6evG8XlLl3ft--