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On 3/10/21 9:00 AM, Mark Knecht wrote: |
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> My undocumented (and unsupported by data) opinion is that this |
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> localhost thing has been around a long, long time - possibly longer |
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> than Linux for all I know. Check out |
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Yes, very much so. |
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TL;DR: The "localhost" name is a shortcut to say this host that I'm on |
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without worrying what the actual host name is or that said name is |
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configured to resolve to an IP on this system. |
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The localhost concept goes back a LONG way in TCP/IP. I think that it |
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even pre-dates TCP/IP, via the NCP protocol. |
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Grant. . . . |
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