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[Jasper Frumau]

On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 11:54 AM, Scott Haneda <talklists at newgeo.com> wrote:

> On Feb 28, 2010, at 9:41 PM, Jasper Frumau wrote:
>
> > Read this. So you suggest replacing
> > 127.0.0.1 localhost
> > with
> > 127.0.0.1 something-else
> > ?
> > So you hostname for 127.0.0.1 is no longer localhost either, am I
> correct?
>
> As Ryan stated, not replace, append/add.  You would not ever really want to
> replace localhost, unless you have very good reason for altering that
> address.
>

Added 127.0.0.1 Jaspers-MacBook-Pro.local to /etc/hosts/

Jaspers-MacBook-Pro:etc jasper$ ping Jaspers-MacBook-Pro.local
PING Jaspers-MacBook-Pro.local (127.0.0.1): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 127.0.0.1: icmp_seq=0 ttl=64 time=0.039 ms
64 bytes from 127.0.0.1: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.074 ms
64 bytes from 127.0.0.1: icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=0.074 ms
64 bytes from 127.0.0.1: icmp_seq=3 ttl=64 time=0.073 ms
^C
--- Jaspers-MacBook-Pro.local ping statistics ---
4 packets transmitted, 4 packets received, 0.0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 0.039/0.065/0.074/0.015 ms


Thanks again for your help!


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