As the title says, this tool is to be used for development. It is not meant to run at production and it hasn't been tested in CI environments either. 1. Users are free to use localhost names as they ...

Short Bytes: Ever wondered why 127.0.0.1 IP address is assigned to localhost? Why not some other IP address like 121.9.1.1 or anything else? The answer to this question lies in the fact that by 1981, ...

Even when every network device is disconnected, your computer can still communicate over a kind of network. Known as a “loopback,” a Unix machine can send and receive network communications from ...

I use libcurl and easy interface and at some point I noticed that requests to localhost were unusually slow. When I added some logging, I noticed that all requests were taking more than 200ms. When I ...

With the release of the Windows 10 Insider build 18945, the Windows Subsystem for Linux version 2 now supports the ability for Windows 10 applications to connect to WSL2 apps via localhost. When WSL2 ...

Facebook and Yandex have been caught performing user-hostile tracking. This sort of makes today just another Friday, but this is a bit special. This time, it’s Local Mess. OK, it’s an attack with a ...

If you’re a web developer or are looking to set up a local server on your machine, running a local server configuration like XAMPP or Apache is one of the easiest ways you can achieve that. However, ...

mysql> GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON *.* TO root@localhost IDENTIFIED BY ' your current password ' WITH GRANT Insert the host and password This section will allow to insert the host's name and user account ...