Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2007 18:20:21 +0100 From: RW <fbsd06@mlists.homeunix.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: a small problem with /etc/hosts in FreeBSD 6.2 Message-ID: <20070912182021.3547c04f@gumby.homeunix.com.> In-Reply-To: <200709121533.24833.lists-fbsd@shadypond.com> References: <200709121533.24833.lists-fbsd@shadypond.com>
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On Wed, 12 Sep 2007 15:33:24 +0000 Pollywog <lists-fbsd@shadypond.com> wrote: > in my hosts file, I have a line that looks like this: > > ::1 localhost localhost.mydomain.com > > > Is this line for IPv6 or is there some other reason for its > presence? It causes occasional problems, so I commented it out and I > kept a similar line that points to 127.0.0.1 > ::1 is the IPv6 address for localhost IPv6 address often contain a long run of zeroes, so :: an abbreviation for this.
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