Re: 127.0.0.1 deprecated??

[Robert Elz <kre%munnari.OZ.AU@localhost>]

    Date:        Mon, 20 Oct 2014 15:32:47 -0500
    From:        Dennis Ferguson <dennis.c.ferguson%gmail.com@localhost>
    Message-ID:  <E8CFDAF4-5E62-4EAD-9C99-919780DDE3C1%gmail.com@localhost>

  | 127.0.0.1 was just arbitrarily chosen for
  | the 4.2 BSD lo(4) interface, there was no standard for that.

Dennis, do you know/remember whether Berkeley actually invented that
use, or did they "borrow" it from elsewhere?   I never knew (and don't
think I ever bothered to ask), it just seemed to be there from the very
first time I saw the networking code.

kre