Well, because that IP isn't what localhost is supposed to be pointed to. It's supposed to point at 127.0.0.1. The IP you mentioned is more likely to be the IP o

Well, because that IP isn't what localhost is supposed to be pointed to. It's supposed to point at 127.0.0.1. The IP you mentioned is more likely to be the IP of the router you're connected to. Usually 127.0.0.1 is limited to the computer's internal network via a loopback network interface and `localhost` should be resolving just to that, but this RFC makes it so that no matter what `localhost` will point locally instead of somewhere else which helps people who want to bind to just the internal loopback and nothing else.