127.0.0.1 is reserved for your machine. There are series of private
addresses in each ip class. 127 series and 192.168 series. They will not
work on the internet. A port of 53 would look like 127.0.0.1:53.

On Fri, Dec 16, 2022, 11:06 PM ToddAndMargo via users <
users@lists.fedoraproject.org> wrote:

> > On Fri, Dec 16, 2022, 10:31 PM ToddAndMargo via users
> > <users@lists.fedoraproject.org <mailto:users@lists.fedoraproject.org>>
> > wrote:
> >
> >     Hi All,
> >
> >     I am use to seeing 127.0.0.1, but now I am seeing
> >     things like 127.0.0.53.
> >
> >     This is used with my caching named server on
> >     port 53.
> >
> >     So I figured that the last digit was the (local)
> >     port.
> >
> >     So I tried CUPS: 127.0.0.631.  No joy.  CUPS
> >     still wanted 127.0.0.1:631 <http://127.0.0.1:631>.
> >
> >     So what exactly is the last field in 127.0.0.xxx?
> >
> >     Yours in confusion,
> >     -T
>
>
> On 12/16/22 19:54, Bill C wrote:
>  > Up to 255
>  >
>
> Are they the port number?  Or is the
> "53" a coincidence?
>
> To me, the port number always comes after
> the IP address IP:port
>
>
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