• Gyroplast@pawb.social
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    1 day ago

    Yes. 127.0.0.0/8 is reserved IPv4 address space for Loopback. It is perfectly valid, and occasionally useful, to use other loopback addresses that are functionally identical, like 127.0.1.1 or 127.0.0.53, which carry semantic information for the initiated, like “53? Must be DNS-related, obviously!”

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      22 hours ago

      At the place I work, we use 10.127.0.0/16 for loopback addresses on networking equipment because it has that little familiarity from 127.0.0.0/8