On Sat, 2008-04-19 at 16:09 -0400, Ric Moore wrote: > On Sat, 2008-04-19 at 06:34 -0700, Craig White wrote: > > > ---- > > 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 ---- on fixed ip address systems, I don't put any other hostnames in the 127.0.0.1 or ::1 address lines at all (other than what is shown above). But that may actually mean that if you want X stuff to work on ipv6, you probably have to execute a command like 'xhost +localhost6' Craig -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
