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Subject: Re: [9front] Loopback device
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loopback is a *link*. it has two sides.
it's not the same as the 127.0.0.1 feature from other unixes.

localhost/127.0.0.1 is not normally used on plan9.

it doesn't make much sense on a distributed and namespaced system.
better use more meaningful unique IPs and hostnames and service names
and then use just those, together with our excellent ndb service to
resolve it all.

On 1/3/22, Benjamin Riefenstahl <b.riefenstahl@turtle-trading.net> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I found out how to activate the loopback interface
> (localhost/127.0.0.1).
>
> While I was trying things, I stumbled over loopback(3).  The
> documentation says to call "bind -a #=CE=BB /net" (which should actually =
be
> spelled "bind -a '#=CE=BB' /net"), but my system responds to that with "b=
ind:
> #=CE=BB: unknown device in # filename".  Is this not compiled in?  Is it
> usefull?
>
> TIA, benny
>
>