Comment 7 for bug 87611
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| Tormod Volden (tormodvolden) wrote Re: portmap doesn't recognize 127.0.1.1 as local | #7 |
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The upstream author Neil Brown thinks it is ill advised to use any other address than 127.0.0.1 for loopback. It is unclear to us both what the third-party application is doing in my case, it does not seem to create a second loopback interface as far as ifconfig can tell. He suggested another patch instead, but it did not work. After reporting this in July 2010 I never heard back from him again. I am losing hope about getting it fixed...
I still need the patched portmap to use the application in question - this is an old, unsupported, closed-source application. Maybe I'll add the patched portmap to my PPA to make it easier for others in the same situation.