Greetings, I do not know why my machine suddenly local uses IPv6 instead of IPv4. I noticed it today when I was unable to retrieve mail. syslog now shows
xinetd[3763]: START: pop-3 from=::1 instead of the former xinetd[3761]: START: pop-3 pid=22632 from=127.0.0.1 and 'telnet localhost pop3' fails unless I force IPv4 with 'telnet -4 localhost pop3'. I was unable to find the place where I could change this behavior, so I used a dirty trick. ----- /etc/hosts ----- # IPv4 and IPv6 localhost aliases 127.0.0.1 localhost # ::1 localhost --------------- Commenting out the last line helped and I could get my mails. But that is really a dirty trick. *g*. I have never used IPv6, I don't intend to and I have forgotten most of what I may have known about the issue. Hopefully on of you knows the right way. Hartmut
