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Date:      Sat, 24 Jun 2000 00:36:51 +0100
From:      Jason Williams <jason@compsoc.man.ac.uk>
To:        Heiko Recktenwald <uzs106@ibm.rhrz.uni-bonn.de>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: /etc/hosts
Message-ID:  <20000624003651.T11985@mrbusy.compsoc.man.ac.uk>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0006220748020.302-100000@moritz.alleswirdgelber>; from uzs106@ibm.rhrz.uni-bonn.de on Thu, Jun 22, 2000 at 08:07:40AM %2B0000
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0006220748020.302-100000@moritz.alleswirdgelber>

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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.

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