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Localhost ip address has to be one of the strangest things ever found in a book. https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinteresting/comments/wf3e99/random_ip_address_p

• chinathrow 4y ago
  That's not localhost, that's an IP address reserved for private networks. Looks like the IP of a home router or something like that to me. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_network https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_network
• happyopossum 4y ago
  Nitpicky point here, but that's not localhost - localhost is typically 127.0.0.1 (although the entire /8 is reserved for loopback use, this is the only address defined in a typical hosts file).