On Sat, 13 Jun 2015 13:59:25 -0400, you wrote: >On 06/13/2015 01:41 PM, Steve Matzura wrote: >> On Sat, 13 Jun 2015 10:36:21 -0600, you wrote: >> >>> Look at /etc/hosts ::1 is the ipv6 version of localhost. >> Right. I actually knew that. So why does that take precedence for the >> definition of localhost even though it's not the first line in the >> file? >IPv6 is preferred when available. >See man 5 gai.conf
/etc/gai.conf does not exist. Further, on the system which I am trying to duplicate by upgrading to the latest version of o/s and layered products, their copy of /etc/gai.conf is nothing but comments and 'netstat -l46nbt' shows the same output, plus or minus a port or two.
