Apache suddenly rejects localhost

[Kurt Wall]

Quoth Net Llama!:
> Did you upgrade browsers?  Quite frankly, i'm surprised it ever worked, 
> because, unless your DNS is configured otherwise, there is no 
> correlation between locahost, and all of your local domains 
> (jhammer6.jhammer.org jhammer6).  I'd edit the first line like this:
> 127.0.0.1 localhost jhammer6.jhammer.org jhammer6

Eh? What named is the other address supposed to be?

127.0.0.0/8 should *never* be anything but localhost because it is
an internal host loopback address space. Packets sent to the loopback
address space should *never* appear outside a host [1,2].

1. http://www.faqs.org/ftp/rfc/rfc1700.txt
2. http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc3330.txt


Kurt
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