2 DNS, one machine

[Alexander Dalloz]

Am Di, den 30.11.2004 schrieb John Summerfield um 0:14:

> On Tuesday 30 November 2004 01:08, Alexander Dalloz wrote:
> > "localhost" is no valid network hostname.
> 
> localhost is a perfectly valid host name and is _the standard_ namd for the 
> computer the program is running on.

> John

As an addition to my other reply to your mail: you took out my words
from their context! This is at least unfair.

--- quote from my reply to Bruce and his question quoted ---

> But is that all I need? Do I need to give different computers
different
> names? They can't all be local.localhost, right? Does that mean I need
> a DNS?

"localhost" is no valid network hostname. It is very trivial (with each

--- end of quote ---

I feel the context gives my statement a very different bias.

Alexander


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