Slightly <OT> Java using ipv6

[Craig White]

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