localhost or loopback
Takahiro Kambe
taca at sky.yamashina.kyoto.jp
Fri Nov 12 23:32:28 UTC 1999
In message <19991112150619.B4361 at adams.cospo.osis.gov>
on Fri, 12 Nov 1999 15:06:19 -0500,
Joseph S D Yao <jsdy at cospo.osis.gov> wrote:
> No real difference. Just different conventions. I believe that
> "localhost" is the more common convention; but at one point I believe
> that I had collected the following aliases from various systems:
>
> 127.0.0.1 localhost loopback loop lo
No, loopback is the name for 127.0.0.0.
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Takahiro Kambe <taca at sky.yamashina.kyoto.jp>
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