1995-08-07 - Re: “The Net”

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From: Scott Brickner <sjb@austin.ibm.com>
To: Ray Arachelian <sunder@escape.com>
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Message ID: <9508072009.AA17336@ozymandias.austin.ibm.com>
Reply To: <Pine.BSD/.3.91.950807151937.11218A-100000@escape.com>
UTC Datetime: 1995-08-07 20:10:18 UTC
Raw Date: Mon, 7 Aug 95 13:10:18 PDT

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From: Scott Brickner <sjb@austin.ibm.com>
Date: Mon, 7 Aug 95 13:10:18 PDT
To: Ray Arachelian <sunder@escape.com>
Subject: Re: "The Net"
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Ray Arachelian writes
>Well, the loopback is only a single IP address.  If they used that, every 
>net.entity would have the same IP.  Not too good. :-)

Nope.  *Any* IP address starting with 127 is a host loopback address
and shouldn't appear outside the host.  This from the "Assigned
Numbers" RFC (STD 2).

127.0.0.1 is only convention.  It's the "first" loopback address.





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