Pablo wrote: >libc seem to need if we have 127.0.0.1 and ::1 >entries in /etc/hosts that are common in many distros. I was trying to imply that this problem is not specific to localhost, but could happen with any host name. Testing the memory contents for for just htonl(INADDR_LOOPBACK) does not seem the right thing. Following is a 3-patch set to illustrate my idea of filtering all duplicates. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netfilter-devel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html