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nasretdinov on Aug 9, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: Localhost

It's also a little known fact that in a lot of operating systems the whole 127.0.0.0/8 is mapped to the local machine. I was able to fool my pretty tech-savvy friend by telling him that my IP was 127.23.85.66 and he even asked why do I have a public FTP server (I didn't) so it definitely worked :).

tupac_speedrap on Aug 9, 2021 [–]

It's bonkers how they used up so much IPv4 address space just for your local machine.

colejohnson66 on Aug 9, 2021 | [–]

I’m the “old days”, /8s were handed out like they were nothing. It wasn’t expected that it would become so bad.

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