On Sun, 2008-06-22 at 02:55 +0930, Tim wrote: > Again, don't fall down the "looking in the mirror" trap by trying to > connect to 127.0.0.1. That's the numerical address for a machine to > refer to itself. > > You're playing with the local loopback device. 127.0.0.1 is the > traditional IP address for it, and localhost is the traditional > hostname for it. Not just traditional, it's a required standard (the IP at least). Also, it's explicitly not routable, i.e. packets with 127.0.0.1 in either source or destination fields can never appear on a network. poc -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
