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  1. Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!news.cso.uiuc.edu!uxa.cso.uiuc.edu!das50852
  3. From: das50852@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (dan)
  4. Subject: Re: Finding/Setting machine address
  5. References: <70506@apple.Apple.COM>
  6. Message-ID: <Bs2KA4.56@news.cso.uiuc.edu>
  7. Sender: usenet@news.cso.uiuc.edu (Net Noise owner)
  8. Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
  9. Distribution: usa
  10. Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 22:39:39 GMT
  11. Lines: 12
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  13. may@Apple.COM (Patrick May) writes:
  14.  
  15. >The address of the source machine is in its /etc/hosts file.  /etc/hosts
  16. >on the target machine contains only the line "127.0.0.1 localhost".
  17.                            ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  18. this address is always the machine itself.  If I understand it correctly
  19. it's a convention used so that machines without the ability to monitor
  20. their own incoming/outgoing packet flow can create a loop so that packets
  21. get sent back to themselves.
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  24.                     dan
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