Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2007 17:47:15 +0200 (CEST) From: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> To: Pollywog <lists-fbsd@shadypond.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: a small problem with /etc/hosts in FreeBSD 6.2 Message-ID: <20070912174653.U6653@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> In-Reply-To: <200709121533.24833.lists-fbsd@shadypond.com> References: <200709121533.24833.lists-fbsd@shadypond.com>
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> 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 > > An example of the problems it sometimes causes is that if I telnet to > localhost at port 25 I get this: > > Trying ::1... > telnet: connect to address ::1: Connection refused > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > >
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