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From: dick hoogendijk <dick@nagual.st>
Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2003 17:43:55 +0200
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Subject: Re: gethostbyaddr(IPv6:::1) failed
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On 19 Apr Karl M. Joch wrote:
> Dick Hoogendijk wrote:
> >## gethostbyaddr(IPv6:::1) failed: 1
> >## gethostbyaddr(192.168.0.1) failed: 1

> add
> 
> ::1	localhost localhost.mydomain.tld
> 
> to /etc/hosts

Thanks. Will do. But do I need to put these in too: (?)

::1	ip6-loopback
fe00::0	ip6-localnet
ff00::0	ip6-mcastprefix
ff02::1	ip6-allnodes
ff02::2	ip6-allrouters
ff02::3	ip6-allhosts

I read today that this is recommended for IPv6 Capable Hosts

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