Do you think are possible modify manually /etc/hosts ? Do you know what is the format ? (I think tab). On Wed, 15 Dec 2004 12:35:44 +0100, Alexander Dalloz <ad+lists@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Am Mi, den 15.12.2004 schrieb Gregory.Alexander@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx um > 12:14: > > > localhost is the loopback device, for example if you installed a > > webserver, you could access it via http://localhost, it means that you can > > setup and test network software without having a network. > > I always use "ifconfig" to setup network devices. > > > Greg Alexander > > Gregory, > > why do you reply to my posting? What do you want to tell me with the > content? > > Speaking about the original posters mail, his question was not about the > loopback device but the eth0 ethernet device and the IP <--> name > mapping. > > Btw. setting up the ethernet devices manually using ifconfig is not > needed in any way and gives no advantage as the network scripts do so > using the more modern iproute2. > > Alexander > > P.S. Please do not post HTML formatted mails to this list. Especially > avoid to send this stupid disclaimer to a public, archived mailinglist > and strip quotation please. O, and don't modify the subject line. > Thanks. > > > -- > Alexander Dalloz | Enger, Germany | new address - new key: 0xB366A773 > legal statement: http://www.uni-x.org/legal.html > Fedora GNU/Linux Core 2 (Tettnang) on Athlon kernel 2.6.9-1.6_FC2smp > Serendipity 12:30:28 up 5 days, 7:11, load average: 0.76, 0.48, 0.38 > > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > > > -- bye by fellons
