Subj : Re: website issues with 127.0.0.1
To : Digital Man
From : Gamgee
Date : Sat Nov 23 2024 04:06 pm
-=> Digital Man wrote to Gamgee <=-
DM> Re: Re: website issues with 127.0.0.1
DM> By: Gamgee to SYS64738 on Sat Nov 23 2024 08:23 am
> SY> Not sure if this makes any difference at all, but 127.0.0.1 and my
> SY> locally assigned ip (192.168.0.1) bother produce the same result. Part
>
> That's because those addresses are the same thing in reality. They both
> point to the local machine.
DM> Not necessarily. 192.168.* just means "private address" (as in private
DM> network), does not mean "localhost" as 127.* does.
Certainly true, from a technical perspective, but I believe he's saying
the 192... address is the "locally assigned" IP for his BBS machine, so
at least in this context/example, they're pointing to the same place.
