Bug 44984

Summary: Installer creates /etc/hosts without IPv6 addresses
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: Arthur van Leeuwen <arthurvl>
Component: anacondaAssignee: Anaconda Maintenance Team <anaconda-maint-list>
Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE QA Contact: Mike McLean <mikem>
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Version: 7.1CC: dr
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Hardware: i686   
OS: Linux   
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Description Arthur van Leeuwen 2001-06-19 13:32:39 UTC
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Description of problem:
Anaconda, when creating the /etc/hosts file on lines 857-887 does not add
the IPv6 addresses for localhost, the local net, the multicastprefix and
the all nodes, all routers and all hosts multicast addresses. Oh, it also
doesn't seem to close the file...


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install Red Hat Linux 7.1
2. Look in /etc/hosts
	

Actual Results:  I found a 4 line file with the lines
# Do not remove the following line, or various programs
# that require network functionality will fail.
127.0.0.1              localhost.localdomain localhost
212.26.207.40          xos040.xos.nl


Expected Results:  I should've found a file with the lines:
# Do not remove the following line, or various programs
# that require network functionality will fail.
127.0.0.1              localhost.localdomain localhost
212.26.207.40          xos040.xos.nl

::1     ip6-localhost ip6-loopback
fe00::0 ip6-localnet
ff00::0 ip6-mcastprefix
ff02::1 ip6-allnodes
ff02::2 ip6-allrouters
ff02::3 ip6-allhosts


Additional info:

Comment 1 Brent Fox 2001-06-27 02:07:09 UTC
We don't currently configure IPv6 in the installer, so setting it up in
/etc/hosts wouldn't make much sense.  I'm deferring this issue for a future
release.

Comment 2 Daniel Roesen 2005-06-16 13:59:13 UTC
IPv6 is enabled nowadays by default.