localhost ports

Mike Gorse mgorse at mgorse.dhs.org
Wed Oct 17 17:43:01 UTC 2007


127.0.0.1 is the correct ipv4 address.

::1 is an ipv6 address.  It is mapped to a hostname of localhost-ipv6 on 
the Debian server that I'm looking at.

On Wed, 17 Oct 2007, Rynhardt P Kruger wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Thanks for the replys. I think I solved it now.
>
> The hosts.allow and hosts.deny files was empty, but when I looked at the
> hosts file, I found that my ip address of localhost was set to ::1. I
> then changed it to 0.0.0.0.
> I wonder how it could have been change to that funny ip address.
>
> Take care,
> Rynhardt
>
> ps: Just as I wanted to send you this message, my mail system
> complained about my IP address so I set it to 127.0.0.1.
> On Tue, Oct 16, 2007 at 10:33:20PM +0200, Geoff Shang wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Answering an earlier message, if host.allow/host.deny was responsible, I
>> think he'd be seeing a connect message and then a "connection closed"
>> message, rather than "connection refused" if this were the reason.
>>
>> Here's a thought out of left field.  When you try to connect, are you using
>> 127.0.0.1 or localhost?   Maybe try 127.0.0.1 if you haven't already in
>> case your DNS is doing weird things to you.
>>
>> Geoff.
>>
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