2
2
I disabled all my network connections and deleted 127.0.0.1 localhost
in HOSTS file but cannot find what had I broken by it. My IIS and MS SQL Server 2008 R2 continues to resolve localhost
just fine
Why does HOSTS file always contain 127.0.0.1 localhost
?
What had I broken by deleting this entry?
I am on Windows XP Pro SP3 writing here still without localhost in HOSTS file.
Should I put it back and how fast ?
The reasons of interest are many fold - for instance:
- To understand better mechanisms of internal resolutions, etc.
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I am not changing the question! I add updates. Can I ask to stop deleting and editing it until I write that I fished with it? For ex., just now I wrote the same comment in all posts addressing the same point.
This is the essence of my question/doubt - that the DNS does not make any sense in relation to "localhost" or "127.0.0.222" or "(local)" names, synonyms, aliases, links, addresses, IDs, tokens, whatever.
They are hundreds synonyms to the same entity and they are internal and Windows-es know it without any resolutions since there is no sense to resolve between so many synonyms!
They are related to internal computer mechanisms while DNS is external (between various computers). How can internal IDs can depend on external ones?
All Windowses (including Home Editions) will have internal DNS server in order to function? and then replicate it when/if connected to network?
Well, the link from comments did not appear in Linked section, as I was told.
I forked a child subquestion:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3536351/is-localhost-host-resolved-to-127-0-0-1
1If you do something that results in something else breaking, it's generally a good idea to undo whatever you did :) Removing the host association to localhost will probably break things, even if nothing (yet) seems obviously broken. Note : Removing the entry in hosts doesn't take down the interface, it just breaks
localhost
resolving to that interface. – Tim Post – 2010-08-20T13:12:22.9371-1 for unnecessary profanities. – Hello71 – 2010-08-20T14:17:35.607
1Do you have anything else to say, @vgv8 ? Two people answered your original question. Please don't get mad at us for not sitting here for hours refreshing this page just in case you make an edit so we can immediately revise our answer. – Tim Post – 2010-08-20T14:37:27.173
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Related questions (according to the OP): http://superuser.com/questions/178187/dis-en-abling-loopback-check-security-feature-in-windows-xp-pro-sp3 and http://superuser.com/questions/178279/why-ping-started-to-resolve-my-computer-name-to-apipa
– Gnoupi – 2010-08-20T14:54:45.750@Tim, I always have a lot to say but to be heard I need to formulate it first! Plz do not refresh, THIS IS NOT CHAT! There are various reasons why I can return late, for ex., because we have 12 hours difference between us. I need to think, to read, to sleep it over – Gennady Vanin Геннадий Ванин – 2010-08-20T14:58:31.570
@Tim, thanks! My updates reflecting your concerns and attention/inteerest to my question were updated by me and deleted by superior members but you still can see remnants in the "Linked" section to the right of this page or in revisions of main post – Gennady Vanin Геннадий Ванин – 2010-08-20T15:15:14.947
@vgv8 - Tim's point is that people answering won't get notified by your question updates unless they "favorite" it. The correct way to add details related to one of the answers given is to comment under this answer. If you added a lot of details which can benefit other answers, then editing the question is the good way to go, but note that you should put a "I have updated my question with more details regarding to what you said" comment under their answer, so they get notified about it. – Gnoupi – 2010-08-20T15:18:35.337
2Stop changing the question. This is not a chatroom. – random – 2010-08-20T15:20:22.403
@Gnoupi, thanks, your comment was the most important comment I ever had in trilogy. Can others see revisions for what had been deleted in main post? Once more deleted links appear in the section "Linked" in the right sidebar. Do others also see them? Or I add them into comments – Gennady Vanin Геннадий Ванин – 2010-08-20T15:27:05.607
@vgv8 - it's enough to put a link in the comments, or an answer, for it to appear on the "linked" category, on side. Revisions are visible for everyone, by clicking the "edited xxminutes ago" link. I haven't fully followed concerns about you, but from your question, I recommend two things: keep it clear, so that people can read and understand them, and don't change the topic to another question. If another question pops in your mind, you can ask a new one, separately. – Gnoupi – 2010-08-20T15:36:10.073
@Gnoupi, thanks. I shall post new questions (to get more downvotes UNTIL the button "ADD COMMENTS" disappear and one more suspension). I NEVER change - I add updates (or make corrections of slips in bold or noted as changed – Gennady Vanin Геннадий Ванин – 2010-08-20T15:41:37.167
2@vgv8 - people don't downvote without a reason. You have to balance the updates you make with the fact of keeping a clear question. A question with two pages of "updates" is impossible to read, and gets downvoted for not being clear. – Gnoupi – 2010-08-20T15:49:41.327
@Gnoupi. certainly! I am grateful! The negative response always draws more attention and people, who, eventually, can answer or add relevant helpful info. – Gennady Vanin Геннадий Ванин – 2010-08-20T16:17:32.293
@Tim, plz note that Linked posts are different from the links given in my main post – Gennady Vanin Геннадий Ванин – 2010-08-20T16:19:07.063
@ALL-ALL-ALL, See my answer! One more VICTORY OF ABSTRACT REASONING – Gennady Vanin Геннадий Ванин – 2010-08-20T18:01:35.753
@Hello71, u r on my list of spammers. Plz do not write in my posts, I shall ignore your writings – Gennady Vanin Геннадий Ванин – 2010-08-21T03:55:09.513
Forked subquestion http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3536351/is-localhost-host-resolved-to-127-0-0-1
– Gennady Vanin Геннадий Ванин – 2010-08-21T04:43:49.8902@vgv8 these sites are not about the people. Don't hold personal grudges against other users, care only about the individual content. – Gnoupi – 2010-08-21T06:40:16.597
@vgv8 - the links in the "linked" column are appearing only if it's from Super User. Also, please stop editing your question for no reason. You had your answer, you marked it as accepted, stop splitting hairs. If you have another question, ask it in another one. It should be only one question per "question". It seems obvious when said, but it's apparently not obvious enough. – Gnoupi – 2010-08-21T10:54:55.250