On 10/17/20 3:16 AM, Per Jessen wrote:
TBH, I don't see much description other than people talking about what it _might_ be used for. I use a few 127.x.x.x addresses myself, 127.0.0.1, 127.0.0.36, 127.0.0.99 and 127.0.0.111, for instance. On a large mailserver setup, instead of having miscellaneous services use localhost:xxxxx, we have them use 'some.local.name:pp', which makes the mail log easier to read. ("some.local.name" resolves to some 127.0.0.x address).
The crux I got from the link was that 127.0.0.2 was implementation defined (by the various distros) to behave as they needed it to. So there wasn't any one thing that that address did on its own. (it could have been any 127.0.0 address, but I guess the next after .1 was what most used when they used it) -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org