Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2004 13:53:36 -0400 (EDT) From: "Steve Bertrand" <iaccounts@ibctech.ca> To: "Clint Olsen" <clint@0lsen.net> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Odd /etc/hosts entry Message-ID: <3418.209.167.16.15.1090864416.squirrel@209.167.16.15> In-Reply-To: <20040726175135.GA32899@0lsen.net> References: <20040726175135.GA32899@0lsen.net>
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> 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 It's an entry for IPv6, and it is commented out (not used). ::1 is the IP for localhost with IPv6, exactly the same as 127.0.0.1 is for v4. Steve > > -Clint > _______________________________________________ > 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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