Xref: utzoo comp.protocols.tcp-ip:9399 comp.unix.wizards:19570 Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!pasteur!paris.Berkeley.EDU!mcgrath From: mcgrath@paris.Berkeley.EDU (Roland McGrath) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip,comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: What is INADDR_LOOPBACK for in sockets? Message-ID: Date: 1 Dec 89 22:25:39 GMT References: <29665@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU> Sender: news@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU Distribution: na Organization: Hackers Anonymous International, Ltd., Inc. (Applications welcome) Lines: 7 In-reply-to: dieter@lynn.cs.ucla.edu's message of 1 Dec 89 22:12:06 GMT INADDR_LOOPBACK is 0x7f000001, Internet address 127.0.0.1, usually called `localhost'. Talking to this address gets you back to where you started from, without going through the network hardware. -- Roland McGrath Free Software Foundation, Inc. roland@ai.mit.edu, uunet!ai.mit.edu!roland Brought to you by Super Global Mega Corp .com