I don't have access to the exact system anymore since it's been more than 6 years, but on a Debian with the exact same /etc/hosts I can't reproduce the issue anymore. Since I was apparently the only one who could repro it in the first place, I'm closing it now. :-)
Andy wrote: > Could it be that "nc" is trying to connect to an IPv6 address? Maybe that was the case on that system for some reason, despite the IPv4 address being on top in /etc/hosts and nslookup giving 127.0.0.1. Maybe it was even a bug with the ncat I had installed, who knows. -- Taylan
