66749 - Can't find the localhost when a IP v6 id is in localhost

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 66872

(Core :: Networking, defect)

Description

[dieter.landolt]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux 2.2.16 i686; en-US; 0.7) Gecko/20010105
BuildID:    2001010517

If you have 2 lines in yout /etc/hosts file, one witch is
as folow :
127.0.0.1       localhost
an a little later the folow
::1             localhost ipv6-localhost ipv6-loopback
your bowser is not able to look up.
It try's all ways to get the IP'v 6 way but its not able.


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
Put this two lines in zhis order in your /etc/hosts file.

127.0.0.1       localhost
::1             localhost ipv6-localhost ipv6-loopback

then try to get a http site from a local host

like

http://localhost.


Actual Results:  Not able to find the host.

Expected Results:  i think you schould use the standard lookup calls in the
operation system, insted of direct look up in the /etc/hosts table.

But i don't now how you make it at the time.


If you try it with netscape 4.76 you will not get this problem.

In some reasons you ar able to delete the ip V6 line.
In moste case you will not need it.

Comment 1

[Stephan Niemz]

Works for me with 01/22 CVS build on Linux, but I have a local nameserver
running.

Besides, the default configuration on my system (Debian Woody) is:

127.0.0.1  localhost
::1        ipv6-localhost ipv6-loopback

Wouldn't that be enough?

(Over to Networking.)

Comment 2

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

There is a slightly newer bug on this issue that has a slightly clearer
description of what the problem is behind the scenes.  Marking as duplicate.

Thanks for using Mozilla and reporting bugs, and especially for writing clear
and easy to understand bug reports!

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 66872 ***

Comment 3

[Tom Everingham]

verified dup