[arch-general] Can't Connect to localhost/127.0.0.1 until I'm connected to a network

[Geir Erikstad]

2009/3/6 Thomas Bohn <thomas at bohnomat.de>:
> On 2009-03-06 23:24 +0100, Geir Erikstad wrote:
>
>> Can you connect to ::1 when you are disconnected?
>
> Yes, I can. With IPv6 it works. Maybe I should use that or deactivate IPv6.
>
> Thomas
>

I would disable ipv6 for now.

Read this wikipage:

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/IPv6_-_Disabling_the_Module

I guess adding:

::1 localhost.localdomain localhost

in /etc/hosts might solve it too.

Not sure why you are defaulting to ipv6 though...

-geirr