Re: chrome web browser worthless

From	<tomas@tuxteam.de>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: chrome web browser worthless
Date	2023-08-03 06:40 +0200
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On Wed, Aug 02, 2023 at 08:05:11PM -0400, gene heskett wrote:

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> show mea link to the doc that explains that please
> Cheers, Gene Heskett.

There's not "the doc", but many of them. For starters, rfc5735 [1]
tells us that the whole subnet 127.0.0.0/8 is available for
loopback purposes (I've used it to test web servers locally,
picking one address and giving them a suitable name in /etc/hosts)

The 127.0.1.1 seems to be a Debianism explained here [2]. It seems
that some (ahem) software (Typical GNOME) wants to know "no, what's
my "real" IP address) and fails if there ain't one, so this seems
to have been done to pacify those.

Bad software, bad.

And now go fire your search engine ;-)

Cheers

[1] https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc5735#section-4
[2] https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-reference/ch05.en.html#_the_hostname_resolution

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chrome web browser worthless gene heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2023-08-01 11:40 +0200
  Re: chrome web browser worthless Bret Busby <bret@busby.net> - 2023-08-01 12:30 +0200
    Re: chrome web browser worthless gene heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2023-08-01 15:00 +0200
      Re: chrome web browser worthless Bret Busby <bret@busby.net> - 2023-08-01 18:40 +0200
  Re: chrome web browser worthless Phil Wyett <philip.wyett@kathenas.org> - 2023-08-01 12:30 +0200
    Re: chrome web browser worthless gene heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2023-08-01 14:20 +0200
      Re: chrome web browser worthless "Andrew M.A. Cater" <amacater@einval.com> - 2023-08-01 14:40 +0200
  Re: chrome web browser worthless Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2023-08-01 13:30 +0200
  Re: chrome web browser worthless "Roy J. Tellason, Sr." <roy@rtellason.com> - 2023-08-01 22:20 +0200
  Re: chrome web browser worthless Darac Marjal <mailinglist@darac.org.uk> - 2023-08-02 10:00 +0200
    Re: chrome web browser worthless Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2023-08-02 13:20 +0200
      Re: chrome web browser worthless Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2023-08-02 15:50 +0200
        Re: chrome web browser worthless gene heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2023-08-02 20:10 +0200
          Re: chrome web browser worthless Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net> - 2023-08-02 21:10 +0200
            Re: chrome web browser worthless Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2023-08-02 21:50 +0200
      Re: chrome web browser worthless gene heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2023-08-02 19:10 +0200
        Re: chrome web browser worthless Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2023-08-02 19:30 +0200
          Re: chrome web browser worthless gene heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2023-08-02 20:50 +0200
            Re: chrome web browser worthless David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2023-08-03 07:20 +0200
        Re: chrome web browser worthless Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2023-08-02 20:30 +0200
          Re: chrome web browser worthless gene heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2023-08-02 21:00 +0200
            Re: chrome web browser worthless Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2023-08-02 21:20 +0200
              Re: chrome web browser worthless Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2023-08-02 21:20 +0200
                Re: chrome web browser worthless gene heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2023-08-02 22:20 +0200
                Re: chrome web browser worthless Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2023-08-02 22:50 +0200
              Re: chrome web browser worthless Lee <ler762@gmail.com> - 2023-08-02 21:40 +0200
              Re: chrome web browser worthless gene heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2023-08-02 22:10 +0200
                Re: chrome web browser worthless Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2023-08-02 23:10 +0200
                Re: chrome web browser worthless gene heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2023-08-03 02:10 +0200
                Re: chrome web browser worthless <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2023-08-03 06:40 +0200
                Re: chrome web browser worthless gene heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2023-08-03 03:10 +0200
                127.0.1.1 line, was Re: chrome web browser worthless David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2023-08-03 01:30 +0200
                Re: 127.0.1.1 line, was Re: chrome web browser worthless Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2023-08-03 01:40 +0200
                Re: 127.0.1.1 line, was Re: chrome web browser worthless jeremy ardley <jeremy.ardley@gmail.com> - 2023-08-03 01:50 +0200
                Re: 127.0.1.1 line, was Re: chrome web browser worthless David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2023-08-03 06:30 +0200
                Re: 127.0.1.1 line, was Re: chrome web browser worthless David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2023-08-03 04:10 +0200
                Re: 127.0.1.1 line, was Re: chrome web browser worthless Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2023-08-03 04:10 +0200
                Re: 127.0.1.1 line, was Re: chrome web browser worthless David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2023-08-04 01:00 +0200
                Re: 127.0.1.1 line, was Re: chrome web browser worthless David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2023-08-05 04:30 +0200
                Re: 127.0.1.1 line, was Re: chrome web browser worthless David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2023-08-05 10:20 +0200
                Re: 127.0.1.1 line, was Re: chrome web browser worthless David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2023-08-03 04:10 +0200

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