On 25-Jul-11 20:22:54, steve-ALUG@hst.me.uk wrote:
On 25/07/11 19:42, (Ted Harding) wrote: []
Thanks all.
I had naively assumed that the loopback address was just 127.0.0.1.
Thanks all for enlightening me. Steve
Yes, that would seem to be the explanation. I just successfuly established an ftp connection to 127.0.0.57 and the result was
$ ftp 127.0.0.57 Connected to 127.0.0.57. 220 localhost FTP server (Version 6.4/OpenBSD/Linux-ftpd-0.17) ready. Name (127.0.0.57:ted): ted 331 Password required for ted. Password: <password entered here>
at which point I was successfully logged in, exactly as for 127.0.0.1.
Similarly for an ssh -X connection.
So it looks as though all addresses in 127.0.0.* work equivelently to each other!
Ted.
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