On Apr 04, 2025, poc...@homemail.com wrote: > > > > Sent: Friday, April 04, 2025 at 6:10 AM > > From: "Dan Purgert" <d...@djph.net> > > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > > Subject: Re: DHCP and static addresses, nothing to do with Re: > > Who:Bookwormv.Trixie > > > > On Apr 03, 2025, Greg wrote: > > > On 2025-04-03, Dan Purgert <d...@djph.net> wrote: > > > > > > >> That's what you want: as the address is in the 127.0.0.0 network, > > > >> pinging it will ping itself, and it gets a reply. It doesn't > > > >> require your LAN to be set up, and AIUI it's like localhost > > > >> (127.0.0.1) in that it doesn't touch the network hardware. > > > > > > > > Indeed, the entirety of 127.0.0.0/8 is the virtual loopback adapter > > > > (i.e. "localhost"). > > > > > > Doubtless yet another fallacious notion, but I thought IPV6 opened up > > > the flood gates of assigning "real" ip addresses to whatever the heck > > > Gene's talking about. > > > > Maybe? I honestly lost the plot to what he's trying to accomplish. > > > > Everything will still have a "localhost" entry (albeit "::1" instead of > > 16 million valid options under 127.0.0.0/8), but yes, everything can > > also have publicly routable addresses as well. > > ? > > cat /etc/hosts > # Static table lookup for hostnames. > # See hosts(5) for details. > > I have no need for a hosts file
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