Date: Wed, 4 Feb 1998 12:09:00 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Donn Miller <dmm125@bellatlantic.net> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: question about ppp & dynamic IP Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980204120715.15689C-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.96.980203152155.5704A-100000@myname.my.domain>
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On Tue, 3 Feb 1998, Donn Miller wrote: > I use ppp with an ISP that assigns dynamic IP addresses. What IP address > should I use for my machine? It seems 127.0.0.1 should be used, i.e.: That is true. You don't want local accesses going out over the wire if you can help it. > The one shown here (10.0.0.1) was causing problems with fetchmail -- it > gave me gethostbyname failed for myname.my.domain. But I sort of read > between the lines in the handbook that 10.0.0.1 should be used in the case > of dynamic IP allocation. But it caused problems with fetchmail, so > I changed it to 127.0.0.1. I thought this was wrong at first because I > figured that the same IP address couldn't be used for more than one entry > in /etc/hosts file. > You shouldn't -- just stick the names on the same line, ie 127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.my.domain myname myname.my.domain It should be in hosts(5). Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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