On 4/4/25 06:10, Dan Purgert wrote:
On Apr 03, 2025, 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.
Maybe? I honestly lost the plot to what he's trying to accomplish.
Which is to fix the reason for a 30 second all system freeze of the
system when trying to access a file I own, or want to create, in my
/home/me directory. Totally derails my train of thought a few hundred
times a day.
Everything will still have a "localhost" entry (albeit "::1" instead of
16 million valid options under 127.0.0.0/8), but yes, everything can
also have publicly routable addresses as well.
Cheers, Gene Heskett, CET.
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