Gerard Seibert wrote: > I have not been able to get printing working on this PC. By accident. I > noticed that the ::1 port does not seem to be available. I tried this > command: > > ~ $ telnet localhost 25 > Trying ::1... > telnet: connect to address ::1: Connection refused > Trying 127.0.0.1... > Connected to localhost. > Escape character is '^]'. > 220 scorpio.seibercom.net ESMTP Postfix (2.4-20060727) > quit > 221 2.0.0 Bye > Connection closed by foreign host. > > As you can see, it says that the connection was refused. Is this normal? > I thought that ::1 and localhost were always available. >
Only if you enable IPv6. ie. you put:
ipv6_enable="YES"
into /etc/rc.conf. That will cause each of your interfaces to have at least
a link-local IPv6 address configured, and lo0 will get the ::1 address applied
to it. See /etc/rc.d/ip6addrctl /etc/rc.d/network_ipv6 for the gory details.
Cheers,
Matthew
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