applications using DBus no longer working all of a sudden? Check your /etc/hosts!

[Dave Horsfall]

On Sat, 4 Oct 2014, Clemens Lang wrote:

> > [...] but the address of a highly available open DNS server like 
> > 8.8.8.8 should do the trick just as well.
> 
> I'd suggest using an address in 127./8 with the exception of 127.0.0.1 
> instead. The whole 127./8 is reserved for loopback use.

Folks, NEVER make up your own IP address!  You may not notice the impact, 
but others will.

FWIW, 8.8.8.8 belongs to Level 3 (the whole 8/8 does, in fact), in turn 
assigned to Google (8.8.8/24).

The RFC1918 addresses are there for a reason...

-- Dave