Can you call a pc "LocalHost"

[ziogref]

Just had a thought, can you call a pc "LocalHost"?

If so what impact on a network or pc operation could you see?

[KazuMae]

If it is just a name, I dont think there will be any problem though

[DaltonM]

Make the second L in Local a capital i 

[EricX2]

If only you could rename your computer and see if it works.

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Oh wait, you can.

[ziogref]

Ah if I only could, but im on a work pc. Cant change the name of it. and it was only a thought

[Wombo]

It will work fine, you may have issues with certain aspects of network accessibility tho.

[Benergy]

If you are trying to connect to a service, e.g. a web server on port 80 running locally on a computer by typing localhost into your browser, it's connecting to http://localhost:80/, rather than \\localhost, which would be the address of the other PC on the network.

 

The PC  'name' is only really used for OS integrated file and printer sharing as far as I know, if you were trying to access a service on the network you'd be using the other PC's IP address anyway.

 

However I have never tested this (and I can't really see why anyone would have )

[Tosa]

As far as I've noticed, Windows seems to look up "localhost" the way it looks up everything else at the DNS server.

 

I made a chat a couple years ago using PHP, MySQL and JS/AJAX, but hosting it on Windows gave a ~3 seconds delay; After adding localhost to the hosts file, it went butter smooth and instant.