From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jul 26 17:53:20 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7517D16A4CE for ; Mon, 26 Jul 2004 17:53:20 +0000 (GMT) Received: from internet.potentialtech.com (h-66-167-251-6.phlapafg.covad.net [66.167.251.6]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3C89C43D55 for ; Mon, 26 Jul 2004 17:53:20 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Received: from working.potentialtech.com (pa-plum-cmts1e-68-68-113-64.pittpa.adelphia.net [68.68.113.64]) by internet.potentialtech.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 408A569A39; Mon, 26 Jul 2004 13:53:19 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2004 13:53:18 -0400 From: Bill Moran To: Clint Olsen Message-Id: <20040726135318.31cf9e1f.wmoran@potentialtech.com> In-Reply-To: <20040726175135.GA32899@0lsen.net> References: <20040726175135.GA32899@0lsen.net> Organization: Potential Technologies X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.12 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd4.9) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Odd /etc/hosts entry X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2004 17:53:20 -0000 Clint Olsen wrote: > 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 That's an IPv6 entry. You may want to recompile your kernel without IPv6 support while you're at it. If you don't understand IPv6, removing support from the kernel can head off problems before they happen. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com