On Apr 02, 2025, David Wright wrote: > On Wed 02 Apr 2025 at 09:12:24 (-0400), gene heskett wrote: > > [...] > > Experimenting I find the duplication does not seem to generate an > > error, other than I now had to ping itself by address, since the name > > is now found at 127.0.1.1 by pings lookup? > > 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"). -- |_|O|_| |_|_|O| Github: https://github.com/dpurgert |O|O|O| PGP: DDAB 23FB 19FA 7D85 1CC1 E067 6D65 70E5 4CE7 2860
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