Gregory's Server@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.
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 @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. 1 comment
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@RachaelAva1024 It's part of the special purpose addresses, see;
https://www.iana.org/assignments/iana-ipv4-special-registry/iana-ipv4-special-registry.xhtml
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 βthis hostβ, which could have one address, or ten.
For local testing on the host itself, there's the localhost address.