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To: Juha Saarinen <juha@saarinen.org>
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Subject: Re: loopback not working for anything other than 127.0.0.1 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 24 Sep 2001 08:08:33 +1200."
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Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2001 13:40:50 -0700
From: "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net>
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> Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2001 08:08:33 +1200 (NZST)
> From: Juha Saarinen <juha@saarinen.org>
> 
> Just for reference, which RFC deals with this? I'd be interested to know.

I don't think any RFC actually calls for this, but 1122 is probably
the relevant reference. From 3.2.1.3:
(g)  { 127, <any> }

     Internal host loopback address.  Addresses of this form
     MUST NOT appear outside a host.

R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
Energy Sciences Network (ESnet)
Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab)
E-mail: oberman@es.net			Phone: +1 510 486-8634

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