Re: DHCP and static addresses, nothing to do with Re: Who:Bookwormv.Trixie
On 2025-04-03, Dan Purgert <dan@djph.net> wrote:
>> That's what you want: as the address is in the 127.0.0.0 network,
>> pinging it will ping itself, and it gets a reply. It doesn't
>> require your LAN to be set up, and AIUI it's like localhost
>> (127.0.0.1) in that it doesn't touch the network hardware.
>
> Indeed, the entirety of 127.0.0.0/8 is the virtual loopback adapter
> (i.e. "localhost").
Doubtless yet another fallacious notion, but I thought IPV6 opened up
the flood gates of assigning "real" ip addresses to whatever the heck
Gene's talking about.
I guess it isn't happening any time soon.
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