On Apr 03, 2025, Greg wrote: > 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. Maybe? I honestly lost the plot to what he's trying to accomplish. Everything will still have a "localhost" entry (albeit "::1" instead of 16 million valid options under 127.0.0.0/8), but yes, everything can also have publicly routable addresses as well. -- |_|O|_| |_|_|O| Github: https://github.com/dpurgert |O|O|O| PGP: DDAB 23FB 19FA 7D85 1CC1 E067 6D65 70E5 4CE7 2860
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