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What is the function of 127.0.1.1 in /etc/hosts

Posted 03-02-2021 at 03:50 AM by Ninguém (Anybody's business)
Updated 03-03-2021 at 04:06 AM by Ninguém

What purpose does 127.0.1.1 serve in /etc/hosts besides 127.0.0.1?
I posted the question to the Debian social group in this thread.
I remember seeing references to it being needed for gnome, but does it? Really? I've been using gnome without it for ages. No hill-behavior perceived.
I went on and asked a search engine about it and here's what I found:
The search engine pointed me to read the Debian reference which pointed to a Debian bug #719621 in debian-reference package...
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