[rescue] Printing to the 'net

Brian Hechinger rescue at sunhelp.org
Wed Aug 8 12:06:32 CDT 2001


On Wed, Aug 08, 2001 at 06:35:01PM +0200, Sebastian Marius Kirsch wrote:
> 
> No, they actually reserved a whole class B net for loopback, god knows
> why, so loopback is actually 127/8, not 127.0.0.1/32. Oh well, what are
> 16.7 million wasted addresses, in these days of IP shortage ...

actually, 127/8 is a class A.  just thought i'd nitpick a little. :)

-brian



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