[ale] OT: Stupid Windows Trick

[Michael B. Trausch]

On Tue, 2007-02-20 at 09:35 -0500, Jeff Lightner wrote:

> Well I got the duplicate response but don't understand it.  
> Localhost = 127.0.0.1 i.e. the host you're on.   If you ping localhost
> that's the IP you see.   
> Also if I do the net view without specifying a host the list that comes
> up of all computer has no localhost entries.
> 
> Maybe the subject should have just been "Stupid Windows".


According to Microsoft, their strange behavior for this command is "by
design."

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/254210

    -- Mike

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