Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 20 Sep 1998 18:10:51 +0100 | From | Jamie Lokier <> | Subject | Re: xdm not seeing localhost |
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On Fri, Sep 18, 1998 at 11:36:48PM +0400, root@ms2.inr.ac.ru wrote: > > are there any other programs which might need broadcasts on lo, too ? > > No valid programs need broadcasts on loopback.
NIS to a local server can use it. In this case, a lot of programs break when loopback broadcast is disabled! I found this when configuring a firewall once.
Ok, you can configure NIS to not use broadcast. But it's not the default, and there are valid reasons for wanting to do it the broadcast way.
-- Jamie
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