Subject: bug#18914: 2.0.11 REPL server listens on 127.0.0.1 but not "localhost"

From: [email-masked] (Taylan Ulrich Bayırlı/Kammer)
Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2014 23:49:16 +0100

<[email-masked]> writes:

> I wonder, could localhost be resolving to your ethernet IP address?
> Or maybe resolving to an IPv6 address?

tub@taylan:~$ nslookup localhost
Server:		127.0.0.1
Address:	127.0.0.1#53

Name:	localhost
Address: 127.0.0.1

tub@taylan:~$

The local DNS server is dnsmasq.

> What does /etc/hosts say?

tub@taylan:~$ cat /etc/hosts
127.0.0.1	localhost
127.0.1.1	taylan.uni.cx   taylan

# The following lines are desirable for IPv6 capable hosts
::1     localhost ip6-localhost ip6-loopback
ff02::1 ip6-allnodes
ff02::2 ip6-allrouters
tub@taylan:~$

This is on Debian and I don't remember manually mucking with the file.

Were you not able to reproduce the bug?

Taylan