What is the 127.0.0.2 IP address for?
Problem
I'm running the example in hiredis, which is using as the Redis server IP, and it is running properly. Actually, the redis server is running on the same machine. I know that is the IP address of , but how about ? Is it the same as ?
Error Output
127.0.0.2
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Fix for: What is the 127.0.0.2 IP address for?
Yes: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loopback https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Localhost IPv4 network standards reserve the entire 127.0.0.0/8 address block for loopback purposes. That means any packet sent to one of those 16,777,214 addresses (127.0.0.1 through 127.255.255.254) is looped back. IPv6 has just a single address, ::1. Various Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) standards reserve the IPv4 address block 127.0.0.0/8, in CIDR notation and the IPv6 address ::1 for this purpose. The most co…
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