Slightly <OT> Java using ipv6

Ric Moore wayward4now at gmail.com
Sat Apr 19 20:09:58 UTC 2008


On Sat, 2008-04-19 at 06:34 -0700, Craig White wrote:

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> do you have localhost for ipv6/inet6 in /etc/hosts?
> 
> # cat /etc/hosts
> # Do not remove the following line, or various programs
> # that require network functionality will fail.
> 127.0.0.1       localhost.localdomain localhost
> ::1             localhost6.localdomain6 localhost6
> 
> Note the last line... ::1 localhost6.localdomain6 localhost6... that
> helps identify your computer. I often copy my hosts file from machine to
> machine and machines that have only ipv4 addresses...this can be a
> problem.

...would I do the same thing for iam.wayward4now.net in hosts? Or, is
just localhost sufficient?
 
Just so you know, I also have ur., ru. and ima. on my other localnet
machine domainnames. <chuckles> Ric

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