<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Jan 4, 2015 at 12:23 PM, René J.V. <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rjvbertin@gmail.com" target="_blank">rjvbertin@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">And when I out-comment the localhost definition from /etc/hosts, I can no longer connect to that hostname.</blockquote></div><br>That's because, while a nameserver often comes with a zone definition providing a localhost definition, publishing it is a no-no. So 8.8.8.8 will not serve it to you, whereas a local nameserver usually would. (Roughly the same rule as for the RFC1918 private address ranges.)<br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div>brandon s allbery kf8nh sine nomine associates</div><div><a href="mailto:allbery.b@gmail.com" target="_blank">allbery.b@gmail.com</a> <a href="mailto:ballbery@sinenomine.net" target="_blank">ballbery@sinenomine.net</a></div><div>unix, openafs, kerberos, infrastructure, xmonad <a href="http://sinenomine.net" target="_blank">http://sinenomine.net</a></div></div></div>
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