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What is the meaning of 127.0.0.1?

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What is the meaning of 127.0.0.1?
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It's the loopback network address. If you try and go there, you are immediately "looped back" to you own machine address.
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an IP adress, its one of the reserved ranges
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This IP address is given to localhost, which basically means the IP addr of your own machine. . If you try following command . c:\>ping localhost. then you are sending request to your own machine.
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It's the loopback network address
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if any ip address that starts from 127.x.x.x, it means it is the loop back address of the host, any packet transmitted to this address comes back to the sender.
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