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List:       kfm-devel
Subject:    Re: Enable Javascript for local .html files
From:       "Richard Moore" <richmoore44 () gmail ! com>
Date:       2008-12-03 21:30:05
Message-ID: 5491a5150812031330s2118d385r569cfb37019a8fe1 () mail ! gmail ! com
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On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 12:12 PM, James Richard Tyrer <tyrerj@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.

Cheers

Rich.
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