Today we will learn about loopback addresses that can be reached from the outside via routing. This is useful for running services on a router In a previous post, I talked about the loopback interface and how we can locally bind services to any address in the range 127.0.

Old article I found in my bookmarks. Although I didn’t have the use for it, I thought it was interesting.

  • @catloaf@lemm.eeEnglish
    1•6 months ago

    Assigning non-loopback addresses to the loopback interface seems like a dumb idea. I don’t see any reason to do this over assigning the address to eth0 or whatever.