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

From: <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2014 18:33:53 -0400

---- "Taylan Ulrich
	Bayırlı/Kammer" <[email-masked]> wrote: 
> After starting 'guile --listen', I can connect to it via 127.0.0.1 but
> not "localhost": "Ncat: Connection refused."  I don't know if
> listening on "localhost" by default has any security implications?

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

What does /etc/hosts say?

-Dale