I am using FC6. In earlier versions of RHL and Other Linuxes, the /etc/hosts file used to have an entry like this
Code:
127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost
but now the entry looks like
Code:
::1 localhost.localdomain localhost
I dont understand the syntax. I am having difficulty doing anything like
http://localhost.
I have to use the URL
http://127.0.0.1
Putting in the extra line:" 127.0.0.1 localhost" in the file /etc/hosts does the trick.
Do we have any other solution to this problem? and What does the new format "::1" mean?.
ricc