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Old 01-04-2008, 05:43 PM  
brandonstills
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LOL.

Ok, a few things to know. 192.168.xxx.xxx are what are known as reserved IP's. They are for local networks ONLY. There is no such public IP address. When you have a router it usually creates a network on 192.168.1.xxx. So that means that IP is somewhere inside your local network in your building.

As far as 127.0.0.1 that's an alias for your local machine. This is true for pretty much every computer out there regardless of OS (although I guess it's possible to disable the alias I don't think I've ever seen a machine where this was done. Go to any machine and ping 127.0.0.1 and it will ping the machine you are ping'ing from. It's also called localhost. Try "ping localhost", it will have the same result.

Curious, why do you ask?
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