Leopard Difficulties...Solved (I hope)

[Clark Cox]

On 10/27/07, Jerry LeVan <jerry.levan at eku.edu> wrote:
> Hi,
> It appears that doing an upgrade was the main problem...

...

>
> bash-3.2# cat hosts.system_default
> ##
> # Host Database
> #
> # localhost is used to configure the loopback interface
> # when the system is booting.  Do not change this entry.
> ##
> 127.0.0.1       localhost
> 255.255.255.255 broadcasthost
> ::1             localhost
> fe80::1%lo0     localhost
>
> I don't understand ipv6 but adding the last line of the
> above to /etc/hosts cleared the httpd error messages
> in system.log

FYI, fe80::1 and ::1 are IPv6 synonyms for 127.0.0.1, and the %lo0
means "on the loopback interface" (as opposed to %en0, %en1, etc.)


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Clark S. Cox III
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