On 2025-04-03, Dan Purgert <d...@djph.net> wrote: >> That's what you want: as the address is in the 127.0.0.0 network, >> pinging it will ping itself, and it gets a reply. It doesn't >> require your LAN to be set up, and AIUI it's like localhost >> (127.0.0.1) in that it doesn't touch the network hardware. > > Indeed, the entirety of 127.0.0.0/8 is the virtual loopback adapter > (i.e. "localhost").
Doubtless yet another fallacious notion, but I thought IPV6 opened up the flood gates of assigning "real" ip addresses to whatever the heck Gene's talking about. I guess it isn't happening any time soon.
