Clint Olsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> So, I just debugged a majorly annoying problem doing port forwarding with
> SSH.  Thanks to some creative Googling, I realized I had a weird entry in
> my hosts file.  What does this "::1" entry mean?
> 
> #::1                  localhost localhost.my.domain

That's an IPv6 entry.

You may want to recompile your kernel without IPv6 support while you're at
it.  If you don't understand IPv6, removing support from the kernel can
head off problems before they happen.

-- 
Bill Moran
Potential Technologies
http://www.potentialtech.com
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