How does localhost 127.0.0.1 work?

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I found some articles related to this, but they were not sufficient for me. I want to know how the works and why is it the same on many different machines? How does the block the access to the website when we use it in the file to block the website?

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I won't talk about the Windows case here, because it's a bit different, but let's say this: In every* Unix-like operating system, you have two network devices: A loopback device An Ethernet device The first one is purely "virtual". It's like an Ethe…

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