Package: netcfg Severity: wishlist Tags: patch Patch at https://salsa.debian.org/installer-team/netcfg/merge_requests/4
This mirrors the corresponding static hostname that is defined for IPv6: > # The following lines are desirable for IPv6 capable hosts > ::1 localhost ip6-localhost ip6-loopback These lines exist because there are some situations where you can only conveniently specify a hostname but you wish to force a particular protocol. For the same reason "ip4-localhost" is useful. I was inspired to request this and write the patch because I hit this exact situation with some software I am debugging. -- System Information: Debian Release: 9.5 APT prefers stable APT policy: (990, 'stable'), (500, 'stable-debug'), (500, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.17.0-0.bpo.1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_GB:en (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)