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hey everyone,
so I know that 127.0.0.1 or localhost just loops back to your local machine. However, I don't understand what occurs on the packet level when you actually type in 'localhost' or '127.0.0.1' One of my co-workers speculated that each computer has some sort of internal name-resolver program that, when a user types in those special strings, is automatically called & just re-directs back to the local computer. Does this sound valid?
Does anyone know what exactly happens on the packet level?
thanks,
--Jonathan
so I know that 127.0.0.1 or localhost just loops back to your local machine. However, I don't understand what occurs on the packet level when you actually type in 'localhost' or '127.0.0.1' One of my co-workers speculated that each computer has some sort of internal name-resolver program that, when a user types in those special strings, is automatically called & just re-directs back to the local computer. Does this sound valid?
Does anyone know what exactly happens on the packet level?
thanks,
--Jonathan