A little off topic but may be useful for someone: On Mon, 12 Sept 2022 at 16:11, Tom Lane <tgl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: ... > Linux doesn't seem to show its routing of the loopback domain in netstat > output, but it's probably much like what macOS shows explicitly: Among other things it can be shown by "ip route show", although it is a little too verbose: $ ip route show table all default via 192.168.0.1 dev enp39s0 onlink 192.168.0.0/24 dev enp39s0 proto kernel scope link src 192.168.0.2 broadcast 127.0.0.0 dev lo table local proto kernel scope link src 127.0.0.1 local 127.0.0.0/8 dev lo table local proto kernel scope host src 127.0.0.1 local 127.0.0.1 dev lo table local proto kernel scope host src 127.0.0.1 broadcast 127.255.255.255 dev lo table local proto kernel scope link src 127.0.0.1 broadcast 192.168.0.0 dev enp39s0 table local proto kernel scope link src 192.168.0.2 local 192.168.0.2 dev enp39s0 table local proto kernel scope host src 192.168.0.2 broadcast 192.168.0.255 dev enp39s0 table local proto kernel scope link src 192.168.0.2 ::1 dev lo proto kernel metric 256 pref medium fe80::/64 dev enp39s0 proto kernel metric 256 pref medium local ::1 dev lo table local proto kernel metric 0 pref medium local fe80::2d8:61ff:fe9f:267b dev enp39s0 table local proto kernel metric 0 pref medium multicast ff00::/8 dev enp39s0 table local proto kernel metric 256 pref medium ( table local trims it a bit ). For debugging this things my first go is to "ip route get", which gives the selected one: $ ip route get 127.1.2.3 local 127.1.2.3 dev lo src 127.0.0.1 uid 1000 cache <local> Francisco Olarte.