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| From | Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.os.linux.networking |
| Subject | Re: ping to non-existent addresses on the local loopback succeed! |
| Date | 2016-11-03 07:41 +0100 |
| Organization | Plouf ! |
| Message-ID | <nvem7o$204q$1@saria.nerim.net> (permalink) |
| References | <nvd05h$pk3$1@dont-email.me> <27dped-40d.ln1@Telcontar.valinor> |
Le 02/11/2016 à 16:26, Carlos E.R. a écrit : > On 2016-11-02 16:19, Charles T. Smith wrote: >> Can someone explain to me why? >> >> E.g. >> >> $ ping 127.0.2.1 >> PING 127.0.2.1 (127.0.2.1) 56(84) bytes of data. >> 64 bytes from 127.0.2.1: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.064 ms >> ... > > Works as expected. As per the following route in the "local" routing table : ip route show table local ... local 127.0.0.0/8 dev lo proto kernel scope host src 127.0.0.1 ... Note that all these addresses are reserved to the local host, but a host does not have to use them all. Linux does.
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ping to non-existent addresses on the local loopback succeed! "Charles T. Smith" <cts.private.yahoo@gmail.com> - 2016-11-02 15:19 +0000
Re: ping to non-existent addresses on the local loopback succeed! "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@invalid.es> - 2016-11-02 16:26 +0100
Re: ping to non-existent addresses on the local loopback succeed! "Charles T. Smith" <cts.private.yahoo@gmail.com> - 2016-11-02 15:39 +0000
Re: ping to non-existent addresses on the local loopback succeed! Andy Furniss <spam@spam> - 2016-11-02 15:52 +0000
Re: ping to non-existent addresses on the local loopback succeed! "Charles T. Smith" <cts.private.yahoo@gmail.com> - 2016-11-02 16:32 +0000
Re: ping to non-existent addresses on the local loopback succeed! Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2016-11-03 07:41 +0100
Re: ping to non-existent addresses on the local loopback succeed! "Charles T. Smith" <cts.private.yahoo@gmail.com> - 2016-11-03 08:51 +0000
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