[Info-vax] Update to TCP/IP problem with Alpha VMS 8.4

[vmsmangler at earthlink.net]

On Apr 6, 4:09 pm, Johnny Billquist <b... at softjar.se> wrote:
> On2012-04-06 17.43, Bob Koehler wrote:
>
> > In article<daf845aa-2c41-4e3c-9688-2d95efc86... at do4g2000vbb.googlegroups.com>, "vmsmang... at earthlink.net"<vmsmang... at earthlink.net>  writes:
>
> >> Of course localhost is also defined in both files as 127.0.0.0
>
> >     Is that a typo?  On all my systems localhost is 127.0.0.1.  IIRC
> >     localhost can actually be any number within120.0.0.0/24.
>
> The local network is really an A-class network, so the proper definition
> is127.0.0.0/8
>
> And yes, the previous poster must have been confused. 127.0.0.0 is not a
> legal host address, either if you have127.0.0.0/8or127.0.0.0/24. A
> host part of all zeros or all ones are not allowed.
>
> But really,127.0.0.0/24is also a slight misconfiguration, if anyone is
> doing that. Not that it will be important enough to make any practical
> difference...
>
>         Johnny

I did make a typo for localhost. It actually is 127.0.0.1