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Date:      Wed, 21 Aug 2002 13:27:31 +1000
From:      Edwin Groothuis <edwin@mavetju.org>
To:        nicholas harteau <nrh@ikami.com>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: /etc/hosts: localhost
Message-ID:  <20020821032731.GH785@k7.mavetju>
In-Reply-To: <20020821031943.GT29960@ikami.com>
References:  <20020821031943.GT29960@ikami.com>

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On Tue, Aug 20, 2002 at 10:19:43PM -0500, nicholas harteau wrote:
> 
> Sometime recently /etc/hosts seems to have been changed such that:
> 
> ::1	localhost
> lies before
> 127.0.0.1	localhost
> 
> making some applications (bind9.2.1's rndc bit me in the ass) bomb out
> when trying to connect to 'localhost' in this context.
> 
> is there a real compelling reason to put the ipv6 variant first?

It's done two years ago according to
	http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/etc/hosts

Edwin

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