From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Sep 12 16:11:36 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0CC3B16A421 for ; Wed, 12 Sep 2007 16:11:36 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from derek@computinginnovations.com) Received: from betty.computinginnovations.com (mail.computinginnovations.com [64.81.227.250]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9CBE813C457 for ; Wed, 12 Sep 2007 16:11:35 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from derek@computinginnovations.com) Received: from p28.computinginnovations.com (dhcp-10-20-30-100.computinginnovations.com [10.20.30.100]) (authenticated bits=0) by betty.computinginnovations.com (8.13.8/8.12.11) with ESMTP id l8CGBSuA022880; Wed, 12 Sep 2007 11:11:28 -0500 (CDT) Message-Id: <6.0.0.22.2.20070912111014.0268f3e0@mail.computinginnovations.com> X-Sender: derek@mail.computinginnovations.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 6.0.0.22 Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2007 11:10:54 -0500 To: Pollywog , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Derek Ragona In-Reply-To: <200709121608.46424.lists-fbsd@shadypond.com> References: <200709121533.24833.lists-fbsd@shadypond.com> <20070912174653.U6653@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <200709121608.46424.lists-fbsd@shadypond.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-ComputingInnovations-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-ComputingInnovations-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-ComputingInnovations-MailScanner-From: derek@computinginnovations.com X-Spam-Status: No Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: Subject: Re: a small problem with /etc/hosts in FreeBSD 6.2 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2007 16:11:36 -0000 At 11:08 AM 9/12/2007, Pollywog wrote: >On Wednesday 12 September 2007 15:47:15 Wojciech Puchar wrote: > > > in my hosts file, I have a line that looks like this: > > > ::1 localhost localhost.mydomain.com > > > > > > Is this line for IPv6 or is there some other reason for its presence? It > > > causes occasional problems, so I commented it out and I kept a similar > > > line that points to 127.0.0.1 > > > > there should be 2 lines > > > > ::1 localhost localhost.my.domain > > > > 127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.my.domain > > > >Yes, there are, but it is the first line that causes the error. I suppose I >could transpose them rather than comment out the first line. >I had not thought to try that. Are you running ipv6? If not just comment that line out. -Derek -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support.