localhost or loopback
Takahiro Kambe
taca at sky.yamashina.kyoto.jp
Fri Nov 12 02:28:35 UTC 1999
In message <CFE1D88B32E5D2119BBA080009DC399D5F2F8C at ficsrfmsg01>
on Thu, 11 Nov 1999 17:54:07 -0800,
Jin Cui <JinCui at FairIsaac.com> wrote:
> 1) 127.0.0.1 localhost
Correct.
> 2) 127.0.0.1 loopback
Loopback is the name of the network which localhost belogs to.
So, loopback is need to only in /etc/networks file.
loopback 127 # UNIX loopback interface network number
If you still want to add loopback to hosts file, use the line like
bellow:
127.0.0.0 loopback
As for DNS, you need to create localhost zone. And if you want to look
up loopback via DNS, you need to create loopback zone.
--
Takahiro Kambe <taca at sky.yamashina.kyoto.jp>
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