Re: 127.0.0.1 deprecated??

[Mindaugas Rasiukevicius <rmind%netbsd.org@localhost>]

Dennis Ferguson <dennis.c.ferguson%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:
> 
> On 20 Oct, 2014, at 13:15 , Mouse <mouse%Rodents-Montreal.ORG@localhost> wrote:
> > BUGS
> >     Previous versions of the system enabled the loopback interface
> > automati- cally, using a nonstandard Internet address (127.1).  Use of
> > that address is now discouraged; a reserved host address for the local
> > network should be used instead.
> > 
> > This is the first I've heard of 127.1, a very old syntax for 127.0.0.1,
> > being nonstandard for loopback use or of its being deprecated, and,
> > indeed, the startup scripts for each of those three versions are
> > hardwired to bring lo0 up as 127.0.0.1.
> 
> <...>
> 
> The first assigned numbers RFC where network 127 was assigned to
> loopback was from the end of 1986:
> 
>     http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc990
> 
> <...>

Was it a warning before the standardisation attempt?  According to
CSRG archive, Mike Karels adjusted the manpage section in May 1986.

http://nxr.netbsd.org/history/src-csrg/share/man/man4/lo.4

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Mindaugas