Q: IPv6-only setup - get rid of 127.0.0.1

Tomasz Torcz tomek at pipebreaker.pl
Thu Jun 21 12:44:42 UTC 2012


On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 04:42:54PM +0400, Alexey I. Froloff wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am running F17 in IPv6-only network (behind NAT64 gateway) and
> would like to get rid of 127.0.0.1 address from lo interface.
> Please, don't tell me, that this "would break lots of stone-aged
> software", because such configuration works for about a year
> already in non-RH distro.  
> 
> I can't find who sets "inet 127.0.0.1/8 scope host" address to lo
> interface.  Commented out the IPADDRESS in ifcfg-lo - no result.
> 

  systemd sets this very early during boot.


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