From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jun 23 16:37: 8 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from serenity.mcc.ac.uk (serenity.mcc.ac.uk [130.88.200.93]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3D75437BA18 for ; Fri, 23 Jun 2000 16:36:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jason@compsoc.man.ac.uk) Received: from mrbounce.compsoc.man.ac.uk ([192.84.78.5]) by serenity.mcc.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 2.05 #4) id 135d0F-000DK4-00; Sat, 24 Jun 2000 00:36:51 +0100 Received: from mrbusy.compsoc.man.ac.uk (root@mrbusy.compsoc.man.ac.uk [192.84.78.3]) by mrbounce.compsoc.man.ac.uk (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id AAA69620; Sat, 24 Jun 2000 00:36:51 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from jason@compsoc.man.ac.uk) Received: (from jason@localhost) by mrbusy.compsoc.man.ac.uk (8.9.3/8.9.3/Debian/GNU) id AAA24622; Sat, 24 Jun 2000 00:36:51 +0100 Date: Sat, 24 Jun 2000 00:36:51 +0100 From: Jason Williams To: Heiko Recktenwald Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /etc/hosts Message-ID: <20000624003651.T11985@mrbusy.compsoc.man.ac.uk> Reply-To: jason@compsoc.man.ac.uk References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: ; from uzs106@ibm.rhrz.uni-bonn.de on Thu, Jun 22, 2000 at 08:07:40AM +0000 X-Disclaimer-1: Nothing in this mail is guaranteed to be definitive or correct. X-Disclaimer-2: Nothing in this mail should be considered to represent anything but my own personal opinion. X-Lighthearted: So there :-p Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Jun 22, 2000 at 08:07:40AM +0000, Heiko Recktenwald wrote: > ::1 localhost localhost.my.domain myname.my.domain > > ^^^ > > What is this ??? "::1", never seen it, is it DNS Syntax ? That'd be the IPv6 "localhost" address, I believe... HTH. -- "Now that's an idea. Spearmint flavored rye bread. Mmm. Hey, I just said it was an idea. I didn't say it was a good idea. " -- Larry Wall jason@compsoc.man.ac.uk khendon@compsoc.man.ac.uk secretary@compsoc.man.ac.uk admin@compsoc.org.uk (finger jason@compsoc.man.ac.uk for PGP public key) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message