[clug-talk] Ubuntu IPv6 breaks services with missing lo

[Neil Bower]

On Wed April 26 2006 16:07, Roy Souther wrote:
> I tried to get a program to run in Ubuntu and found the reason it would
> not run is because Ubuntu networking is configured with IPv6 and the
> local loop-back lo device that should be at 127.0.0.1 is not. The eth0
> device gets an IP from the DHCP server and I can browse google but I
> cannot ping 127.0.0.1. 
>
> What is the proper way to get around this problem in Ubuntu?
>
> Royce Souther

My Kubuntu installation has support for both IPv4 and IPv6. Is there packages 
for both?

Here is a listing from my /etc/hosts file.

127.0.0.1       localhost.localdomain   localhost       roseway

# The following lines are desirable for IPv6 capable hosts
::1     ip6-localhost ip6-loopback
fe00::0 ip6-localnet
ff00::0 ip6-mcastprefix
ff02::1 ip6-allnodes
ff02::2 ip6-allrouters
ff02::3 ip6-allhosts

Hope this helps.

Neil

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