> From: D'Arcy J.M. Cain
>
>>Thus spake Andrew Brown
>>
>> there's a small part of netstart (as it stands now) that says
>> 
>>    # use loopback, not the wire
>>    route add $hostname localhost
>> 
>> and i always thought that was "not right".  don't you want to have all
>> local addresses (ie, all address on all interfaces) going through the
>> loopback back to you?  it seems to work as it is (indicating to me that
>> the entire statement is not needed) but wouldn't it be more correctly
>> placed in the main loop after it ifconfigs the interface up?
>
>What if you have a standalone system?  The loopback interface is always
>up.

standalone systems should be fine too.  if you have no interfaces other
than lo0, then $hostname won't resolve to an address, will it?  so the
command doesn't work anyway...

then you dial in ppp (like i do sometimes) and you can still get to
your address (from the ppp interface) without specifying that it
go through loopback, can't you?

or am i completely lost here?

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