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No, I'm just on a mac. Also: This is ordinarily implemented using only 127.0.0.1/32 for loopback.
by Hikikomori 2y ago
No, I'm just on a mac.
Also:
This
is ordinarily implemented using only 127.0.0.1/32 for loopback.
- cryptonector 2y agoOn Linux it has a larger netmask and you can have multiple loopback addresses.
- ArchOversight 2y agoOn MacOS it has a larger net mask, but the OS doesn't respond to any address within that range automatically. lo0: flags=8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 16384 options=1203<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,TXSTATUS,SW_TIMESTAMP> inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000 inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128 inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1 nd6 options=201<PERFORMNUD,DAD>