On Sun, Nov 12, 2006 at 08:57:01PM -0500, Douglas Tutty wrote: > On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 02:07:52AM +0100, David Jardine wrote: > > > To muddy the water a little more, I have > > > > 127.0.0.1 quash localhost loopback > > > > where "quash" is the name of the machine. I don't remember how I came > > to do this, but it must have been from some debian documentation. > > > I guess that would be for a computer with no network access (other, I > suppose, than ppp).
Well, it's actually linked to another machine here at home with the name "beetroot" and an /etc/hosts entry: 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost beetroot Again, I don't remember why I put it there, but I was messing around with ftp, ssh, dns, fileserving and I don't know what, just to see how they worked. I haven't had any trouble as I recall, but I haven't used, for example, mysql, which I think was the original poster's problem -- David Jardine "Running Debian GNU/Linux and loving every minute of it." -L. von Sacher-M.(1835-1895) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
