Gentoo Archives: gentoo-amd64

From: Harm Geerts <harmgeerts@××××.nl>
To: gentoo-amd64@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] provide net
Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2005 16:31:32
Message-Id: 200512291728.27530.harmgeerts@home.nl
In Reply to: [gentoo-amd64] provide net by Lorenzo Milesi
1 On Thursday 29 December 2005 16:58, Lorenzo Milesi wrote:
2 > I've a simple question, not really AMD64 specific: why net.lo does not
3 > provide "net"?
4 because net.lo is not usefull for a system that provides services.
5 for example running a ssh server for net.lo is kinda silly :)
6
7 > I'm asking this because last week at home I couldn't run apache2
8 > because I didn't have an interface up but lo. But this is silly,
9 > because I could still use apache2 locally!
10 > Am I wrong? Is my system wrong?
11 Your system is correct, if you don't care for this you can change the
12 behaviour in /etc/conf.d/rc with the RC_NET_STRICT_CHECKING variable
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Re: [gentoo-amd64] provide net Dave Crane <d@×××××.net>