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From: Clint Olsen <clint@0lsen.net>
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Subject: Odd /etc/hosts entry
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So, I just debugged a majorly annoying problem doing port forwarding with
SSH.  Thanks to some creative Googling, I realized I had a weird entry in
my hosts file.  What does this "::1" entry mean?

#::1			localhost localhost.my.domain

-Clint