The following message is a courtesy copy of an article
that has been posted to comp.lang.misc as well.

itojun / itojun.org writes:

> 	still not sure why you get ::ffff:127.0.0.1... you should be getting
> 	::1, or 127.0.0.1.  It seems to me that either (1) getaddrinfo is buggy
> 	(2) ::ffff:127.0.0.1 is in /etc/hosts.

Arrgh!

It was the nscd daemon. If I kill it, then the addresses come back
without the ::ffff: on them.

I'll go look for the latest version and see if this is a known bug.


Regards


Dave