Scott: Your suggested approach works for me even though I can't find any documentation on how this is supposed to work. Everything I read says that 127.0.1.1 should be the canonical hostname of the instance. Do you happen to have any pointers to the information you are alluding to with IPv6 and 127.0.1.2?
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