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Rachael Ava πŸ’πŸ»β€β™€οΈ

@sindarina Just checked Wikipedia, and you're right. I guess I've only ever seen 0.0.0.0 used to point something to nowhere. I had no idea it could be used as an actual IP address. I just thought it was the equivalent to /dev/null.

Sindarina, Edge Case Detective

@RachaelAva1024 It's part of the special purpose addresses, see;

iana.org/assignments/iana-ipv4

and basically never used directly, only behind the scenes, which is also why it's not particularly useful in testing, or documentation, because it just means β€˜this host’, which could have one address, or ten.

For local testing on the host itself, there's the localhost address.

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