See RFC1122, section 3.2.1.3, available at
http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/htbin/rfc/rfc1122.html
http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1122.html
> On Fri, Mar 31, 2000 at 12:57:40PM +0100, Nik Clayton wrote:
[...]
> > I thought that 127/8 was the "local net", and that packets sent to any of
> > those addresses would go via the loopback interface. That seems to be
> > how Linux and Windows 98 do things (the only systems I can check this on
> > at the moment). Assuming that's the case, why does FreeBSD only add a
> > a host route to 127.0.0.1, and not a network route for 127/8? Various
> > other people have confirmed that they only have a 127.0.0.1 host route
> > as well, so I don't believe this is a misconfiguration of my system.
>
> No one's actually been able to answer this, save a few comments that the
> loopback interface is special-cased to do this in the code, and that the
> code in question is quite old.
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