Re: Name resolution on Debian/Windows network
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On Sun, Dec 21, 2003 at 04:07:29AM +0200, Micha Feigin wrote:
> 127.0.0.1 is a reserved IP always pointing to the local computer. You
> could even do ping 127.0.0.1 on you windows machines to ping themselves
> (another way is to use the reserved name localhost).
More specifically, all of 127.0.0.0/8 is localhost. I wonder what the
rationale was to overshoot that badly on that allocation when a much
smaller subnet would have been better...
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