That's the line I had added yesterday as a test. But in fact, none of the 10,000 Spybot entries before it were redirecting to ::1 properly either.
So what's the point of trying to add ::1 back? Paranoia? Maybe. But in fact, after adding it back just now, the hosts file is still working perfectly! WTF???? On Sat, Dec 6, 2008 at 8:02 AM, Chris Dunford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> "::1" is the IPv6 equivalent to 127.0.0.1, always the local machine. >> >> Uh-oh. I wonder if this could be trouble in the future? But what the >> heck am I supposed to do except delete it? And doesn't anyone else >> have this in their Vista hosts file? > > Yes, I have it, and my hosts works fine. I suspect that if you leave "::1" > in and explicitly use 127.0.0.1 it will work: > > 127.0.0.1 www.yahoo.com ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
