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Date:      Sun, 20 Apr 2003 17:43:55 +0200
From:      dick hoogendijk <dick@nagual.st>
To:        "Karl M. Joch" <k.joch@kmjeuro.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: gethostbyaddr(IPv6:::1) failed
Message-ID:  <20030420154355.GA23066@lothlorien.nagual.st>
In-Reply-To: <3EA19FCE.4050109@kmjeuro.com>
References:  <20030419153541.GA886@pooh.nagual.st> <3EA19FCE.4050109@kmjeuro.com>

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On 19 Apr Karl M. Joch wrote:
> Dick Hoogendijk wrote:
> >## gethostbyaddr(IPv6:::1) failed: 1
> >## gethostbyaddr(192.168.0.1) failed: 1

> add
> 
> ::1	localhost localhost.mydomain.tld
> 
> to /etc/hosts

Thanks. Will do. But do I need to put these in too: (?)

::1	ip6-loopback
fe00::0	ip6-localnet
ff00::0	ip6-mcastprefix
ff02::1	ip6-allnodes
ff02::2	ip6-allrouters
ff02::3	ip6-allhosts

I read today that this is recommended for IPv6 Capable Hosts

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