On Sat, 2022-12-17 at 12:10 +0100, GianPiero Puccioni wrote: > On 17/12/2022 05:23, Mike Wright wrote: > > [snip] > > > 127.0.0.0/8 is the loopback address. That means that any IP that > > begins with > > 127 is a valid loopback address. The three 0's can each be any > > number from 0 > > through 255. > > > > > I thought that the last octet could not be 0 (address of the network) > or 255 (broadcast). Is this not the same for the Loopback? 127.0.0.0/8 refers to the network, not to a specific address. The final 0 octet would be the broadcast address if used in an IP packet. poc _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
