On Sat, Feb 16, 2002 at 09:49:03PM -0800, ben wrote: > On Saturday 16 February 2002 02:59 pm, will trillich wrote: ... > > on my potato server at home, it doesn't seem to. should it? > > > i guess not, if your system works without it. i had the impression that auto > lo was a necessary first entry in the interfaces file, based on the fact that > if i uncomment or delete it, dns resolution is crippled. i'm on a dialup, so > maybe the rules are different.
As I wrote before, this changed from potato to woody. In potato there is the `noauto' option, in woody there is the `auto' stanza. -- groetjes, carel