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What's a loopback-address? I.e. 127.0.0.1
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What is a loop-back address? 127.0.0.1 is a loop-back address, but what does this even mean? Please be very descriptive and give an example, as I'm having a hard-time understanding this.
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A loopback address is "connected" to a virtual network card in your machine called the loopback adapter. Anything sent to the virtual loopback adapter comes right back out of it. It's like it's "connected to itself." For example, if I make a web req…
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