Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2004 13:53:18 -0400 From: Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com> To: Clint Olsen <clint@0lsen.net> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Odd /etc/hosts entry Message-ID: <20040726135318.31cf9e1f.wmoran@potentialtech.com> In-Reply-To: <20040726175135.GA32899@0lsen.net> References: <20040726175135.GA32899@0lsen.net>
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Clint Olsen <clint@0lsen.net> wrote: > So, I just debugged a majorly annoying problem doing port forwarding with > SSH. Thanks to some creative Googling, I realized I had a weird entry in > my hosts file. What does this "::1" entry mean? > > #::1 localhost localhost.my.domain That's an IPv6 entry. You may want to recompile your kernel without IPv6 support while you're at it. If you don't understand IPv6, removing support from the kernel can head off problems before they happen. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com
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