On Mon, 8 May 2000, Carlo Sogono wrote:
> yep, figured that out. but what exactly uses other 127.* addresses? why the
> huge range?
It was chosen at a time that you can count the number of computers in the
world with the amount of sugar cubes in a cup.
There was no danger of running out of ip addresses.
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> From: Ryan F. Go <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> Subject: Re: [plug] 127. <- out of curiosity
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> > On Mon, 8 May 2000, Carlo Sogono wrote:
> >
> > > So the localhost is assigned 127.0.0.1...is there ever a chance where
> > > 127.0.0.2 or any other IP in this range to be used? If so, who uses
> them?
> > >
> >
> > Hello Carlo,
> >
> > The answer is no :) AFAIK, 127.0.0.x ip block is reserved for
> > localhost and loopback only. Much like 192.168.x.x and 10.x.x.x which
> > are used for private / dummy networks.
> >
> > HTH,
> > Yan
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