From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jun 26 17:56:14 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from inconnu.isu.edu (inconnu.isu.edu [134.50.8.55]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F0FBB37BAAD for ; Mon, 26 Jun 2000 17:56:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from galt@inconnu.isu.edu) Received: from localhost (galt@localhost) by inconnu.isu.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA12837; Mon, 26 Jun 2000 18:55:59 -0600 Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2000 18:55:59 -0600 (MDT) From: John Galt To: gerti-freebsdq@bitart.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What does the ::1 do in the /etc/hosts sample? In-Reply-To: <20000626233055.6937.qmail@camelot.bitart.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG IPv6's localhost (cf 127.0.0.1). Look at the RFCs for v6 (compiled on www.6bone.org), www.6bone.net, and the KAME project (www.kame.net) for starters. On Mon, 26 Jun 2000, Gerd Knops wrote: > Hi, > > In various files in FreeBSD4, such as the /etc/hosts sample, I see ::1 > constructs. Could someone please point me to where these are > documented? > > Thanks > > Gerd > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > -- There is an old saying that if a million monkeys typed on a million keyboards for a million years, eventually all the works of Shakespeare would be produced. Now, thanks to Usenet, we know this is not true. Who is John Galt? galt@inconnu.isu.edu, that's who! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message