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Date:      Tue, 08 Aug 2006 15:46:07 -0400
From:      Gerard Seibert <gerard@seibercom.net>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Port Not Available
Message-ID:  <20060808154327.BDB4.GERARD@seibercom.net>
In-Reply-To: <44D8E541.1060808@infracaninophile.co.uk>
References:  <20060808145644.G2113@scorpio.seibercom.net> <44D8E541.1060808@infracaninophile.co.uk>

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Matthew Seaman wrote:

> Only if you enable IPv6.  ie. you put:
> 
>     ipv6_enable="YES"
> 
> into /etc/rc.conf.  That will cause each of your interfaces to have at least
> a link-local IPv6 address configured, and lo0 will get the ::1 address applied
> to it.  See /etc/rc.d/ip6addrctl /etc/rc.d/network_ipv6 for the gory details.
> 
> 	Cheers,
> 
> 	Matthew

That notation is in my rc.conf file. It was put there by sysinstall when
I first installed the system.

So, shouldn't it resolve to something or is it working the way it is
designed too?


-- 
Gerard Seibert
gerard@seibercom.net




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