On 4/4/25 06:10, Dan Purgert wrote:
Which is to fix the reason for a 30 second all system freeze of the system when trying to access a file I own, or want to create, in my /home/me directory. Totally derails my train of thought a few hundred times a day.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.
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