From c8c5d12e4547c40d053d53eb50f6e6eb28ad1642 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?Ludovic=20Court=C3=A8s?= Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2024 14:15:16 +0100 Subject: =?UTF-8?q?doc:=20Update=20=E2=80=98block-facebook-hosts-service-t?= =?UTF-8?q?ype=E2=80=99=20description.?= MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit This is a followup to c1d37d0653766c8de52e22bae01701baf503338f. * doc/guix.texi (Networking Services): Update to mention unroutable addresses. Change-Id: I6f62e1f414a3eb7892b2d4cc0d011458bbec7001 --- doc/guix.texi | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) (limited to 'doc') diff --git a/doc/guix.texi b/doc/guix.texi index 20f007b1c0..af85d5c2a0 100644 --- a/doc/guix.texi +++ b/doc/guix.texi @@ -22719,9 +22719,9 @@ Logging level. This service type adds a list of known Facebook hosts to the @file{/etc/hosts} file. (@pxref{Host Names,,, libc, The GNU C Library Reference Manual}) -Each line contains a entry that maps a known server name of the Facebook -on-line service---e.g., @code{www.facebook.com}---to the local -host---@code{127.0.0.1} or its IPv6 equivalent, @code{::1}. +Each line contains an entry that maps a known server name of the Facebook +on-line service---e.g., @code{www.facebook.com}---to unroutable IPv4 and +IPv6 addresses. This mechanism can prevent programs running locally, such as Web browsers, from accessing Facebook. -- cgit v1.2.3