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

From: <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 1 Nov 2014 16:56:35 -0400

---- "Taylan Ulrich Bayırlı/Kammer" <[email-masked]> wrote: 
> <[email-masked]> writes:

> > 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?

Seems to work fine on master

dsmith@stumpy:~$ ncat localhost 37146
GNU Guile 2.1.0.1583-7dba1
Copyright (C) 1995-2014 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
...

Maybe try strace, possibly limiting it with -e connect, to reveal what it's actually doing.

-Dale