From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Sep 22 20:49:10 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from rover.village.org (rover.bsdimp.com [204.144.255.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 403D037B401 for ; Sat, 22 Sep 2001 20:49:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from harmony.village.org (harmony.village.org [10.0.0.6]) by rover.village.org (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f8N3n6u32029; Sat, 22 Sep 2001 21:49:06 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id f8N3n5746094; Sat, 22 Sep 2001 21:49:05 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Message-Id: <200109230349.f8N3n5746094@harmony.village.org> To: "Juha Saarinen" Subject: Re: loopback not working for anything other than 127.0.0.1 Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 23 Sep 2001 15:22:21 +1200." <001201c143de$f4eeb590$0a01a8c0@den2> References: <001201c143de$f4eeb590$0a01a8c0@den2> Date: Sat, 22 Sep 2001 21:49:05 -0600 From: Warner Losh Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <001201c143de$f4eeb590$0a01a8c0@den2> "Juha Saarinen" writes: : :: Linux does all sorts of things differently from everyone else, why : :: would this be any different ? : : Just curious... maybe they've got a GNU loopback interface? ;-)) : : :: 127.0.0.2 does not respond by default on any UNIX flavor I : :: have access : :: to immediately - FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Solaris, OSF1, etc. : : Not on BSDi 4.1 either. Or SunOS 3.x, SunOS 4.x, AIX, IRIX, VMS (all the various TCP/IP stacks available), DOS, WIN/NT, 4.2 BSD on a vax, 4.3 BSD on a vax, HP/UX, OSF/1, Ultrix and every single other machine I've ever used since 1985. It didn't used to "work" on Linux. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message