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Article: PSA be aware of the difference between localhost and 127.0.0.1

I was bit in the butt by a bug that sprung up at me over the weekend. It really wasn’t a bug but I think it should be. I explain more down below. Over the weekend I setup a new VPS with Linode where its only job was to be my central always-running syncthing server in the cloud. Upon first setting it up was able to reverse SSH tunnel to it using my standard SSH config and keys using this command. (hic sunt localhost is a play on words from the old Hunt-Lenox-Globe which coined the phrase “Here be dragons” or “hic sunt dracones” in Latin.)