Hi, On Thu, Apr 03, 2025 at 01:28:43PM -0000, Greg wrote: > On 2025-04-03, Dan Purgert <d...@djph.net> wrote: > > Indeed, the entirety of 127.0.0.0/8 is the virtual loopback adapter > > (i.e. "localhost"). > > I thought IPV6 opened up the flood gates of assigning "real" ip > addresses
In IPv6 you still need loopback addresses or something similar, but you only get one of them - ::1. You also get the massive link-local space of fe80::/10 on each interface including loopback. > whatever the heck Gene's talking about. Historically we do not get very far here when talking about IPv6 with Gene. Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting
