On 06/13/2015 01:41 PM, Steve Matzura wrote: > On Sat, 13 Jun 2015 10:36:21 -0600, you wrote: > >> Look at /etc/hosts ::1 is the ipv6 version of localhost. > Right. I actually knew that. So why does that take precedence for the > definition of localhost even though it's not the first line in the > file? IPv6 is preferred when available. See man 5 gai.conf