Facts about loopback address (127.0.0.1)

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Facts about loopback address (127.0.0.1)

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Back in the day when they figured they'll never run out of IP addresses using IPv4 they figured instead of just reserving 127.0.0.1 they'll reserve the entire class A range which is 127.0.0.0-127.255.255.255

So if you try to ping/access any address in that range, it's still going to act as being loopback.


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