17 Dec
2003
17 Dec
'03
11:17 p.m.
Ray Arachelian writes
Well, the loopback is only a single IP address. If they used that, every net.entity would have the same IP. Not too good. :-)
Nope. *Any* IP address starting with 127 is a host loopback address and shouldn't appear outside the host. This from the "Assigned Numbers" RFC (STD 2). 127.0.0.1 is only convention. It's the "first" loopback address.