Why are local resources accessed slowly when loopback or local IP address is used whereas accessing the same resources over the network works fine?

Why are local resources accessed slowly when loopback or local IP address is used whereas accessing the same resources over the network works fine?http://blogs.technet.com/b/nettracer/archive/2010/08/16/why-are-local-resources-accessed-slowly-when-loopback-or-local-ip-address-is-used-whereas-accessing-the-same-resources-over-the-network-works-fine.aspxHi there, In today’s blog post, I’m going to talk about a local resource access performance issue. One of our customers reported that SQL server instances running on a Windows 2003 server were failing over to another node especiallyen-USTelligent Evolution Platform Developer Build (Build: 5.6.50428.7875)