On 4/3/25 09:29, Greg wrote:
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.
The more rural WV areas are an ipv6 desert, and given Debian's penchant
for ipv6, its disabled here. I've no clue, but it seems to me that if
it gets no replies trying ipv6, it should fall back to ipv4. There may
be some ipv6 in Pittsburg, PA and Hurricane Electric 100 mi south in
star city probably, but there is not a path thru my local ISP to get to
either. I don't miss what I've never seen. Weston is the county seat but
struggles to census 7k souls. I came here in '84 to be the CE at the
local cbs affiliate, helped make it the #1 station in the market, still
is.
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Cheers, Gene Heskett, CET.
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