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by rurcliped 1668 days ago
It's common for outbound traffic to 127/8 to be blocked, at the application layer, to prevent SSRF. For example, in WordPress:

https://github.com/WordPress/WordPress/blob/9d4d3f8fba13be09...
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op00to 1668 days ago
There are so many embedded systems that assume so much about 127/8. I don’t understand what industry is driving this that can’t simply look to ipv6…
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