From: Scott Brickner <sjb@austin.ibm.com>
To: Ray Arachelian <sunder@escape.com>
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UTC Datetime: 1995-08-07 20:10:18 UTC
Raw Date: Mon, 7 Aug 95 13:10:18 PDT
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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