Re: [wlug] sudo broken after upgrade from gutsy to hairy^Whardy

On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 02:26:12PM +1200, Bruce Kingsbury wrote:

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*brain-break* Shouldn't that be 127.0.0.1?

Nope. 127.0.1.1

To clarify this, the loopback device is technically 127.x.x.x/8, so nearly anything starting with "127." will work. I assume the reason for assigning the hostname to something other than 127.0.0.1 is so that 127.0.0.1 is only "localhost" unambiguously. John