From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Hartmut Goebel Subject: Re: Contents of /etc/hosts Date: Sun, 9 Oct 2016 11:12:58 +0200 Message-ID: <57FA0A1A.7040905@crazy-compilers.com> References: <20161005183147.GA32276@jocasta.intra> <57F61869.10400@goebel-consult.de> <20161008140838.GA5979@jocasta.intra> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:45183) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1btAiY-0005t1-Or for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 09 Oct 2016 05:48:27 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1btAiU-0001TG-JA for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 09 Oct 2016 05:48:25 -0400 Received: from mail-out.m-online.net ([212.18.0.9]:56769) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1btAiU-0001Sp-Cw for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 09 Oct 2016 05:48:22 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20161008140838.GA5979@jocasta.intra> 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: John Darrington Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org 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. Me fool. of course it does: the loopback interface has netmask /8 )defined in RFC 990 https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc990 But for IPv6 the loopback interface has ::1/128, this ::2 would not got there. So if we follow your proposal adding "127.0.0.2 gambrius" to /etc/hosts, we could not contently doe this for IPv6. --=20 Regards Hartmut Goebel | Hartmut Goebel | h.goebel@crazy-compilers.com | | www.crazy-compilers.com | compilers which you thought are impossible |