[rescue] Printing to the 'net

[G W Adkins]

> No, they actually reserved a whole class A 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, I think it's best that way, can you imagine the routing nightmare
if you misconfigured your box's netmask and it thought it's default route
was on the same subnet as your loopback address?

AAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!

(George)