Re: [perl #128289] localhost in IO::Socket::INET

[Marcel Timmerman]

Hi,
Yes you can close it.

Thanks,
Marcel



On May 29, 2016 10:32:16 PM "Sam S. via RT"  
wrote:


Does this mean that the current IO::Socket::INET bahavior is fine and the 
ticket can be closed?

Re: [perl #128289] localhost in IO::Socket::INET

[mt1957]

On 05/29/2016 07:47 PM, Brandon Allbery via RT wrote:

getent hosts


> getent hosts on faulty system
127.0.0.1   localhost localhost.localdomain localhost4 
localhost4.localdomain4
127.0.0.1   localhost localhost.localdomain localhost6 
localhost6.localdomain6



On ok system. It differs only in the second line

127.0.0.1   localhost localhost.localdomain localhost4 
localhost4.localdomain4

127.0.0.1   localhost6 localhost6.localdomain6

I've removed the localhost localhost.localdomain part from the second 
line in /etc/hosts and after that the test went ok. So this was really a 
quick fix.



Thanks,

Marcel

Re: [perl #128289] localhost in IO::Socket::INET

[Brandon Allbery]

On Sun, May 29, 2016 at 1:43 PM, mt1957 
wrote:

>   * On both systems localhost translates to 127.0.0.1 (checked with dig)


Note that dig only tells you what DNS returns, not what a query through NSS
returns; use "getent hosts" for that. In particular, it will not tell you
how /etc/hosts affects things.
(I would suspect that, on the failing system, localhost first resolves to
::1 and IPv6 is not configured.)

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