It's a bit obscure but 127.x.x.x is a /8. So you have quite a few loopback IPs/p... | Hacker News

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		gte525u on Sept 11, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Unix Domain Sockets vs Loopback TCP Sockets (2014) It's a bit obscure but 127.x.x.x is a /8. So you have quite a few loopback IPs/port combos. I've tested it and it works with Windows, Linux, GHS integrity.

dathinab on Sept 11, 2023 [–]

on some systems it's /8 but you still can only bind to 127.0.0.x we ran into that during testing before

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