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minus-squareMisterD@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up3·6 months agoLet’s say you want to test a network service like a webserver (https://www.mywebserver.com/) on the same computer as the browser.
minus-square_g_be@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·6 months agoIt was designed that way. This span of addresses should not be used for anything other than localhost-ery. May seem like a wide span, but at the time that it was designed they didn’t anticipate needing every single address
…but why?
Let’s say you want to test a network service like a webserver (https://www.mywebserver.com/) on the same computer as the browser.
It was designed that way. This span of addresses should not be used for anything other than localhost-ery.
May seem like a wide span, but at the time that it was designed they didn’t anticipate needing every single address