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  2. .localhost - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.localhost

    The name localhost is a commonly defined hostname for the loopback interface in most TCP/IP systems, resolving to the IP addresses 127.0.0.1 in IPv4 and ::1 for IPv6.As a top-level domain, the name has traditionally been defined statically in host DNS implementations with address records (A and AAAA) pointing to the same loopback addresses.

  3. localhost - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Localhost

    In computer networking, localhost is a hostname that refers to the current computer used to access it. The name localhost is reserved for loopback purposes. [1] It is used to access the network services that are running on the host via the loopback network interface.

  4. .local - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.local

    The domain name .local is a special-use domain name ... a freshly installed Windows Server 2016 Essentials also adds .local as the default dns-prefix when a user ...

  5. Local host - Wikipedia

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    This page was last edited on 24 July 2009, at 00:03 (UTC).; Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License; additional terms may ...

  6. Reserved IP addresses - Wikipedia

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    Host Used for loopback addresses to the local host [1] 169.254.0.0/16 169.254.0.0–169.254.255.255 65 536: Subnet Used for link-local addresses [5] between two hosts on a single link when no IP address is otherwise specified, such as would have normally been retrieved from a DHCP server 172.16.0.0/12 172.16.0.0–172.31.255.255 1 048 576 ...

  7. Wikipedia:Database download - Wikipedia

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    English Wikipedia dumps in SQL and XML: dumps.wikimedia.org /enwiki / and the Internet Archive. Download the data dump using a BitTorrent client (torrenting has many benefits and reduces server load, saving bandwidth costs).

  8. Hostname - Wikipedia

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    This is usually a combination of the host's local name with its parent domain's name. For example, en.wikipedia.org consists of a local hostname ( en ) and the domain name wikipedia.org . This kind of hostname is translated into an IP address via the local hosts file , or the DNS resolver .

  9. hosts (file) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hosts_(file)

    The computer file hosts is an operating system file that maps hostnames to IP addresses.It is a plain text file. Originally a file named HOSTS.TXT was manually maintained and made available via file sharing by Stanford Research Institute for the ARPANET membership, containing the hostnames and address of hosts as contributed for inclusion by member organizations.