localhost or loopback

[Joseph S D Yao]

On Thu, Nov 11, 1999 at 05:54:07PM -0800, Jin Cui wrote:
> Anybody know what's the different to set up /etc/hosts
> 
> 	1)	127.0.0.1	localhost
> 	2)	127.0.0.1	loopback
> 
> I saw both in different system.  

No real difference.  Just different conventions.  I believe that
"localhost" is the more common convention; but at one point I believe
that I had collected the following aliases from various systems:

127.0.0.1	localhost loopback loop lo

Whatever you have in /etc/hosts, make sure that it is mirrored in your
BIND configuration, or most hosts in your system will just be unaware of
it.

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