From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Aug 20 20:27:46 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D372037B400 for ; Tue, 20 Aug 2002 20:27:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from topaz.mdcc.cx (topaz.mdcc.cx [212.204.230.141]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 36D7B43E70 for ; Tue, 20 Aug 2002 20:27:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from edwin@mavetju.org) Received: from k7.mavetju (topaz.mdcc.cx [212.204.230.141]) by topaz.mdcc.cx (Postfix) with ESMTP id C20F92B912; Wed, 21 Aug 2002 05:27:40 +0200 (CEST) Received: by k7.mavetju (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 5BC7B6A7124; Wed, 21 Aug 2002 13:27:31 +1000 (EST) Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2002 13:27:31 +1000 From: Edwin Groothuis To: nicholas harteau Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /etc/hosts: localhost Message-ID: <20020821032731.GH785@k7.mavetju> Mail-Followup-To: Edwin Groothuis , nicholas harteau , freebsd-stable@freebsd.org References: <20020821031943.GT29960@ikami.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020821031943.GT29960@ikami.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Aug 20, 2002 at 10:19:43PM -0500, nicholas harteau wrote: > > Sometime recently /etc/hosts seems to have been changed such that: > > ::1 localhost > lies before > 127.0.0.1 localhost > > making some applications (bind9.2.1's rndc bit me in the ass) bomb out > when trying to connect to 'localhost' in this context. > > is there a real compelling reason to put the ipv6 variant first? It's done two years ago according to http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/etc/hosts Edwin -- Edwin Groothuis | Personal website: http://www.MavEtJu.org edwin@mavetju.org | Weblog: http://www.mavetju.org/weblog/weblog.php bash$ :(){ :|:&};: | Interested in MUDs? http://www.FatalDimensions.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message