A question about Localhost with Safari

[Brandon Allbery]

On Sun, Jan 4, 2015 at 12:23 PM, René J.V. <rjvbertin at gmail.com> wrote:

> And when I out-comment the localhost definition from /etc/hosts, I can no
> longer connect to that hostname.


That's because, while a nameserver often comes with a zone definition
providing a localhost definition, publishing it is a no-no. So 8.8.8.8 will
not serve it to you, whereas a local nameserver usually would. (Roughly the
same rule as for the RFC1918 private address ranges.)

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