What Does Localhost Mean?
A localhost is the standard host name provided to the address of the local computer in computer networking. The localhost denotes the host name used in communicating with the loopback network interface; that is, with software on the computer that originated the transmission. It’s also a reserved top-level domain name set.
Techopedia Explains Localhost
Localhost is specified in place of using a computer’s host name. It generally translates to an IPV4 address in the 127.0.0.0/8 (loopback) net block or ::1 in IPV6.
