Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2007 16:08:46 +0000 From: Pollywog <lists-fbsd@shadypond.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: a small problem with /etc/hosts in FreeBSD 6.2 Message-ID: <200709121608.46424.lists-fbsd@shadypond.com> In-Reply-To: <20070912174653.U6653@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> References: <200709121533.24833.lists-fbsd@shadypond.com> <20070912174653.U6653@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>
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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.
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