Messages in this thread |  | | Subject | Re: notion of a local address [was: Re: ioctl SIOCGIFNETMASK: ip alias | Date | Thu, 6 Sep 2001 17:39:09 +0100 (BST) | From | Alan Cox <> |
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> 127.0.0.2 is not local on any of my systems. The only exceptions > are some Linux boxen that I did not ask to do so.
Todays reading is from RFC990 in the book of Reynolds & Postel, page number 6
And the IETF spake thusly
| The class A network number 127 is assigned the "loopback" function, that | is, a datagram sent by a higher level protocol to a network 127 address | should loop back inside the host. No datagram "sent" to a network 127 | address should ever appear on any network anywhere.
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