Socket: 10.3 Domain-Specific Information: Loopback

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The loopback domain can only be used for communications between sockets on the same machine.

Domain Name:
"loopback"
Port Numbers:
32-bit values.
Opaque Address Format:
There is no address data: The loopback domain is used for intra-machine communication.
 
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