Hostnames fake & EntitiesID

[Peter Schober]

* Kohler, Bernd <Kohler at rz.rwth-aachen.de> [2013-05-23 16:26]:
> why not adding 2 more loopback addresses - to "separate" IdP and SP - it
> doesn't hurt, but maybe makes log files etc. better readable :)

I've never needed the IdP or SPs IP address logged.

> And of course you can faked FQDN
> 
> grep 127.0 /etc/hosts
> 127.0.0.1       localhost
> 127.0.0.2       hosta.shibboleth.net
> 127.0.0.3       hostb.heise.de

How is this better than

> 127.0.0.1       localhost hosta.shibboleth.net hostb.heise.de

-peter