Re: cant ping external website

On 09/24/2008 08:40 AM, Mark Haney wrote:
Derek Broughton wrote:
Mark Haney wrote:

Well for starters never use 127.0.x.x for /anything/ other than the
loopback. That's a bad idea.

Jeez, Mark. That's an Ubuntu default. 127.0.0.1 is set to localhost, and
127.0.1.1 is set to your hostname. It's perfectly safe - and normal.
Second we've still not seen a side-by-side comparison to one of one of
the systems with a 10.x.x.x IP that works and the one that doesn't.

Well, yeah...

You must understand, I don't use Ubuntu myself and haven't since the
very first couple of versions. Even then, it was more, yeah, this is
okay, next....

Can you please clarify? You do not use Ubuntu yet you are offering
advise on an Ubuntu support mailing list?



With that said, I still think it's silly to do that. Back in the day
(like '93/4) that was considered taboo. So I don't do it.

Cite please.

This has been the standard with debian (upon which Ubuntu is based) for
some time. See:

http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/reference/ch-gateway.en.html#s-net-dns



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