From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Aug 20 20:19:46 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4C6AA37B400 for ; Tue, 20 Aug 2002 20:19:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from farc.ikami.com (farc.ikami.com [204.29.203.67]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F099D43E42 for ; Tue, 20 Aug 2002 20:19:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nrh@ikami.com) Received: by farc.ikami.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 65B4E36F5E; Tue, 20 Aug 2002 22:19:43 -0500 (CDT) Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2002 22:19:43 -0500 From: nicholas harteau To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: /etc/hosts: localhost Message-ID: <20020821031943.GT29960@ikami.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Sometime recently /etc/hosts seems to have been changed such that: ::1 localhost lies before 127.0.0.1 localhost making some applications (bind9.2.1's rndc bit me in the ass) bomb out when trying to connect to 'localhost' in this context. is there a real compelling reason to put the ipv6 variant first? -- nicholas harteau nrh@ikami.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message