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[James Richard Tyrer]

Thiago Macieira wrote:
> On Thursday 04 December 2008 09:54:08 James Richard Tyrer wrote:
>> Stefanos Harhalakis wrote:
>>> On Wednesday 03 December 2008, Richard Moore wrote:
>>>> On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 12:12 PM, James Richard Tyrer <tyrerj at acm.org> 
> wrote:
>>>>> That is the loop back IP address.  IIUC, the IP address for your system
>>>>> is defined as 127.0.0.0.  I don't know if you can use an IP address
>>>>> there.  It says Host/Domain. but the IP address might be acceptable.
>>>> Anything within the 127.0.0.0/24 network is a valid localhost address.
>>>> I have seen some distros using 127.0.0.2 for some reason for example.
>>>> 127.0.0.0 itself is the address of the loopback network, so while it
>>>> might work for somethings, it probably wouldn't work for everything.
>>> Minor correction: The whole 127.0.0.0/8 network is reserved for
>>> loopback(s). See: http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc3330.txt
>> Gee, I hate to get picky, but:
>>
>> "This is ordinarily implemented using only 127.0.0.1/32 for loopback"
>>
>> So, 127.0.0.0 normally is the IP address for localhost and 127.0.0.1 is
>> a loopback address.  I am not an expert, only that that is what I read
>> in a Linux manual.
> 
> $ /sbin/ip route | grep ' lo '
> 127.0.0.0/8 dev lo  scope link
> 
> The whole 127.0.0.0/8 network is reserved for loopback. 

So, the quote from rfc3330 is incorrect?

But, the question is whether or not you can put 127.0.0.0 in the 
JavaSctipt KCM to refer to the host system?

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JRT