From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Aug 8 19:46:04 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 1F4BE16A4DD for ; Tue, 8 Aug 2006 19:46:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gerard@seibercom.net) Received: from wx-out-0506.google.com (wx-out-0506.google.com [66.249.82.226]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A1B5343D49 for ; Tue, 8 Aug 2006 19:46:03 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from gerard@seibercom.net) Received: by wx-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id i27so849705wxd for ; Tue, 08 Aug 2006 12:46:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.70.69.11 with SMTP id r11mr1288986wxa; Tue, 08 Aug 2006 12:46:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from scorpio.seibercom.net ( [67.189.184.224]) by mx.gmail.com with ESMTP id h13sm5370365wxd.2006.08.08.12.46.02; Tue, 08 Aug 2006 12:46:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.0.4] (boss.seibercom.net [192.168.0.4]) (Authenticated sender: gerard@seibercom.net) by scorpio.seibercom.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2AE19BECE for ; Tue, 8 Aug 2006 15:46:01 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2006 15:46:07 -0400 From: Gerard Seibert To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Organization: Seibercom In-Reply-To: <44D8E541.1060808@infracaninophile.co.uk> References: <20060808145644.G2113@scorpio.seibercom.net> <44D8E541.1060808@infracaninophile.co.uk> X-Face: "\j?x](l|]4p?-1Bf@!wN<&p=$.}^k-HgL}cJKbQZ3r#Ar]\%U(#6}'?<3s7%(%(gxJxxcR nSNPNr*/^~StawWU9KDJ-CT0k$f#@t2^K&BS_f|?ZV/.7Q Message-Id: <20060808154327.BDB4.GERARD@seibercom.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Mailer: Becky! ver. 2.25 [en] Subject: Re: Port Not Available X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2006 19:46:04 -0000 Matthew Seaman wrote: > Only if you enable IPv6. ie. you put: > > ipv6_enable="YES" > > into /etc/rc.conf. That will cause each of your interfaces to have at least > a link-local IPv6 address configured, and lo0 will get the ::1 address applied > to it. See /etc/rc.d/ip6addrctl /etc/rc.d/network_ipv6 for the gory details. > > Cheers, > > Matthew That notation is in my rc.conf file. It was put there by sysinstall when I first installed the system. So, shouldn't it resolve to something or is it working the way it is designed too? -- Gerard Seibert gerard@seibercom.net