On 3/10/21 9:00 AM, Mark Knecht wrote:
My undocumented (and unsupported by data) opinion is that this
localhost thing has been around a long, long time - possibly longer
than Linux for all I know. Check out
Yes, very much so.
TL;DR: The "localhost" name is a shortcut to say this host that I'm on
without worrying what the actual host name is or that said name is
configured to resolve to an IP on this system.
The localhost concept goes back a LONG way in TCP/IP. I think that it
even pre-dates TCP/IP, via the NCP protocol.
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