Hosts file - error or feature in FC 6 clean install

Kurt Wall kwall at kurtwerks.com
Mon Nov 6 02:18:26 UTC 2006


On Sun, Nov 05, 2006 at 07:04:48PM -0700, Elaine Normandy wrote:
> 
> In order to get gnofract4d to work, I had to change the following line in my 
> hosts file from 
> ::1    sorrel  localhost.localdomain   localhost
> to
> 127.0.0.1       sorrel  localhost.localdomain   localhost
> 
> I had never seen the "::1" line before, and am wondering if this an error or 
> something new.

"::1" is an IPv6 address.

Kurt
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