. In computer networking, local host refers to hostname.
. Also called as loopback address.
. It means a locally installed website may be accessed from a web browser by the url http://localhost to display home page.
What is 127.0.01?
. It is the standard IP address used for loopback network connection.
. It means, if you try to connect to 127.0.0.1, you are immediately looped back to your own machine.
. It uses http protocol to loop back
. Also referred as local host.
. It connects to the local machine without being accessed from a network.
How it is used?
. Used by most of the developers to test their applications.
. They can test and check their applications without going to the path of network.
. Localhost uses IPv4 address 127.0.0.1 and IPv6 is ::1.