Re: localhost = loopback

[mike808 <mike808@users.sourceforge.net>]

On Friday 06 September 2002 01:04 am, you wrote:
> Fortunately, few programs go through the indignity of a
> gethostbyname("localhost"); they just open sockets to 127.0.0.1.  Still,
> I'm sure that programs that take hostnames in their config are set to
> "localhost" sometimes.  If I had a system like that, I'd definitely
> freak out if "localhost" resolved to something besides 127.0.0.1.

Or users run a webserver and then access it with urls like:
   http://localhost/some/url

Mike808/
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