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cavsi, Miami, Florida What is 127.0.0.1?

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127.0.0.1 is the standard IP address used for a loopback network connection.

This means that if you try to connect to 127.0.0.1, you are immediately looped back to your own machine....

cavsi, Miami, Florida What is IP or Internet Protocol?

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IP (Internet Protocol) is the primary network protocol used on the Internet, developed in the 1970s. Every device connected to the public Internet is assigned a unique number known as an Internet Protocol (IP) address. IP addresses consist of four numbers separated by periods (also called a ‘dotted-quad’) and look something like 127.0.0.1.

An IP address has two parts: the identifier of a particular network on the Internet and an identifier of the particular device (which can be a server or a workstation) within that network....



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