I confirm RFC 2553 specifically exclude loopback interface for AI_ADDRCONFIG.

Attached is a trivial patch.
--- man3/getaddrinfo.3.orig	2012-02-21 09:38:54.000000000 +0100
+++ man3/getaddrinfo.3	2012-02-21 09:39:42.000000000 +0100
@@ -378,6 +378,8 @@
 only if the local system has at least one
 IPv4 address configured, and IPv6 addresses are only returned
 if the local system has at least one IPv6 address configured.
+The loopback address is not considered for this case as valid
+as a configured address.
 .PP
 If
 .I hint.ai_flags

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