Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2007 11:10:54 -0500 From: Derek Ragona <derek@computinginnovations.com> To: Pollywog <lists-fbsd@shadypond.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: a small problem with /etc/hosts in FreeBSD 6.2 Message-ID: <6.0.0.22.2.20070912111014.0268f3e0@mail.computinginnovations.com> 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>
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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
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