Re: 127.0.0.1 deprecated??

[matthew sporleder <msporleder%gmail.com@localhost>]

On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 2:15 PM, Mouse <mouse%rodents-montreal.org@localhost> wrote:
> I just now had occasion to look at lo(4), for the first time in I don't
> know how long.
>
> All three versions I have on hand - 1.4T, 4.0.1, and 5.2 - have a BUGS
> section saying
>
> 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.
>
> Anyone have any idea what's behind that paragraph?
>
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http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=lo&apropos=0&sektion=0&manpath=2.10+BSD&arch=default&format=html

Probably lost to history?  That's the man page for 2.10 BSD
3rd Berkeley Distribution August 1, 1987 LO(4)