Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!brl-adm!brl-smoke!smoke!ron@BRL.ARPA From: ron@BRL.ARPA (Ron Natalie) Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards Subject: Re: ifconfig lo0 question, ultrix32 1.2 Message-ID: <3850@brl-smoke.ARPA> Date: Mon, 15-Sep-86 22:28:04 EDT Article-I.D.: brl-smok.3850 Posted: Mon Sep 15 22:28:04 1986 Date-Received: Tue, 16-Sep-86 20:34:22 EDT Sender: news@brl-smoke.ARPA Lines: 5 In 4.2 the loopback interface was hard initialized to 127.0.0.1. To make it more consitant with the other drivers, it was changed in later BSD versions to have to be explicitly set. -Ron