Loopback address
Barry Margolin
barmar at bbnplanet.com
Fri Oct 1 14:06:38 UTC 1999
In article <4A2567FC.006E5325.00 at iswsn22.isw.eu.mars>,
<michael.masal at ap.effem.com> wrote:
>I am new to this DNS stuff. Can somebody please why you require the
>loopback address (127.0.0.1).
That's the standard address for connecting back to the local host. The
only thing about this that's related to DNS is that it's a common
convention to call this "localhost" in your local domain.
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