1 Jun
2022
1 Jun
'22
4:27 p.m.
On Wed, 1 Jun 2022 15:32:05 +1200, Peter Reutemann quoted:
'Taking the ... 127/8 ... ranges, and making them available as ordinary unicast numbering resources ...'
Oh, wow. Did you know that the entire range of over 16 million 127.x.x.x addresses are all (currently) considered “loopback” ones that point back to your machine? Yes, it does seem an incredible and pointless waste. Sure, people normally use 127.0.0.1. I just wonder how many have picked others in that range, just for the fun of it, and are going to have their setups broken if/when this goes ahead ...