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		heavenlyblue on Aug 23, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Rust GUI ecosystem overview Is there any reason you can’t bind a DNS name to localhost? Security wise, that is.

Fnoord on Aug 24, 2019 [–]

You could use entire 127/8 but using such instead of 127.0.0.1 for security reasons (so that people don't guess or connect to a port) makes no sense.

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