From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 16 17:10:38 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from backup.af.speednet.com.au (af.speednet.com.au [202.135.188.244]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 00B3B37B4C5 for ; Thu, 16 Nov 2000 17:10:34 -0800 (PST) Received: from backup.af.speednet.com.au (backup.af.speednet.com.au [172.22.2.4]) by backup.af.speednet.com.au (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id eAH19wB25753; Fri, 17 Nov 2000 12:10:00 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from andyf@speednet.com.au) Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2000 12:09:57 +1100 (EST) From: Andy Farkas X-Sender: andyf@backup.af.speednet.com.au To: doug@safeport.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Question about /etc/hosts in 4.2-beta In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 16 Nov 2000 doug@safeport.com wrote: > # $FreeBSD: src/etc/hosts,v 1.11.2.1 2000/08/18 18:29:19 ume Exp $ > # > # Host Database > # This file should contain the addresses and aliases > # for local hosts that share this file. > # In the presence of the domain name service or NIS, this file may > # not be consulted at all; see /etc/host.conf for the resolution order. > # > # > ::1 localhost localhost.my.domain myname.my.domain > 127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.my.domain myname.my.domain > # > # Imaginary network. > : > > what does ::1 do/or mean? > Its the IPv6 address for your localhost... 'man 4 kame' for an intro. > > _____ > Douglas Denault > doug@safeport.com > Voice: 301-469-8766 > Fax: 301-469-0601 > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > -- :{ andyf@speednet.com.au Andy Farkas System Administrator Speednet Communications http://www.speednet.com.au/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message