On July 10, 10:42 (+0200), Loïc Minier wrote: > Some packages do break when you change your /etc/hosts, for example > host (I do not use this version myself and did not check the bug > report): > <http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=160714>
This bug does not concern adding IPv6 entries to /etc/hosts, but in /etc/resolv.conf. Adding IPv6 entries to /etc/hosts does not break host. Indeed, host is not even supposed to query /etc/hosts - although it does in some case, but that's another bug ;-) -- Thomas Seyrat