Why is 127.0.0.1 Home?

0	When they started networking computers / making the internet, why did they choose 127.0.0.1 as your home? home ip address asked Jun 01 '11 at 18:32 iGeek3 1.6k●39●49●72

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When initiated, it was set as most IP addresses in the range 127.0.0.1 - 127.255.255.255 are reserved for private use, but 127.0.0.1 is by convention the loopback address in almost all cases.

The Internet Engineering Task Force reserved the 127.0.0.0/8 address block for loopback purposes.

answered Jun 01 '11 at 18:39

kevin ♦♦
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edited Jun 01 '11 at 18:49

You double-posted.

(Jun 01 '11 at 18:40) archaeme

Its a incompatibility with the cr48 and the site giving slow feedback.

Need OSQA to fix that

(Jun 01 '11 at 18:43) kevin ♦♦

So does the 127 mean anything?

(Jun 01 '11 at 18:45) iGeek3

nothing but a standard set by the IET

(Jun 01 '11 at 18:50) kevin ♦♦

127.0.0.0/8 and other special address blocks are defined in RFC 3330: http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc3330.txt

(Jun 01 '11 at 19:01) kmark937

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