loopback address

loopback address definition - telecom
In Internet Protocol (IP), a type of unicast address used when a host needs to send a packet back to itself for test purposes. See also host, IPv6, packet, unicast, and unicast address.

Webster's New World Telecom Dictionary Copyright © 2008 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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