Include `::1 localhost` in /etc/hosts

Jeremy Bicha jeremy.bicha at canonical.com
Wed Apr 20 20:54:13 UTC 2022


::1 is in /etc/hosts in a new Ubuntu 22.04 install. I don't believe
this is new at all.

Thanks,
Jeremy Bicha

On Wed, Apr 20, 2022 at 4:49 PM Treysis <treysis at gmx.net> wrote:
>
> Hello everyone,
>
> it seems like some releases ago the mapping of localhost to ::1 was
> removed. Why was this done? Many other distros don't do this (Debian,
> Arch, Gentoo, OpenWrt), many other operating systems neither (macOS,
> Windows). Not having localhost to resolve to ::1 is getting problematic.
>
> Will 22.04 by default again introduce mapping of ::1 to localhost? If
> not, I want to suggest to change this in the future. It seems like this
> has been the case before.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Trey
>
>
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Thank you,
Jeremy Bicha



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