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On 03.08.2003 23:39, Bernd Walter wrote:

> On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 07:20:02AM +1000, Andy Farkas wrote:
>> On Sun, 3 Aug 2003, Bernd Walter wrote:
>> > On Sun, Aug 03, 2003 at 04:07:15PM +0200, Jens Rehsack wrote:
>> > > Hi David,
>> > >
>> > > I've seen that several world daemons (rpcbind, telnetd, ...) are
>> > > build with INET6.
>> > > In real life, I do not know anyone who owns some IPv6 addresses
>> > > but many guys who disabled INET6 on their machines in kernel.
>> ...
>> > No daemon explicitly binds to an inet6 socket unless configured
>> > to do so.
>> 
>> During bootup, I see this too:
>> 
>> Jul 13 18:09:42 <console.info> hummer kernel: Starting rpcbind.
>> Jul 13 18:09:42 <console.info> hummer kernel: Jul 13 18:09:42 <daemon.err> hummer rpcbind: cannot create socket for udp6
>> Jul 13 18:09:42 <console.info> hummer kernel: Jul 13 18:09:42 <daemon.err> hummer rpcbind: cannot create socket for tcp6
> 
> Just guessing: what's in your /etc/hosts for localhost?

That's not the problem, because of
# cat STATLER < grep INET
options         INET                    #InterNETworking
#options        INET6                   #IPv6 communications protocols

:-)

So no INET6 is available - /etc/hosts doesn't matter in that case

Jens