On Sun, 14 Jan 2007 10:00:58 +0000, Charani <me@privacy.invalid>
wrote:

>On Sat, 13 Jan 2007 21:01:12 -0600, Hootowl wrote:
>
>> I've seen it on my Firefox a number of times, usually when Firefox
>> stalled briefly when beginning to load a site. I have assumed that it
>> was being directed to a site blocked in my HOSTS file-all of which
>> are, of course, redirected to 127.0.0.1.
>
>I've seen it as well but I don't use Firefox, nor do I use a custom
>HOSTS file. I've always understood 127.0.0.1 to be one's own PC and
>the sites are merely checking to see if the destination is one listed
>in the HOSTS file.

I'm no techie, but do I know that 127.0.0.1 is your own computer. On
some systems it may be 0.0.0.0 instead. some systems work faster with
that. Win95 worked slower with it, but I've never tried it on
Win98SE. Sounds like a harmless experiment for me to try that just
might make my online life a little more convenient.

Dan