Problem after upgrading to BIND 9

[Kevin Darcy]

patrick wrote:
> I upgraded BIND on one of our DNS servers (running FreeBSD 4.x) to
> version 9, and now all of our other machines that use this server for
> DNS resolution is experiencing a problem where "localhost" seems to be
> resolving to "::1". For example, if I previously typed:
>
> telnet localhost 25
>
> I would get:
>
> Trying 127.0.0.1...
> Connected to localhost.
> Escape character is '^]'.
> ...
>
> But now, I get:
>
> Trying ::1...
>
> Which takes forever to timeout.
>
> In my /etc/hosts file, I have
>
> ::1                     localhost
> 127.0.0.1               localhost
>
>
> We don't use IPV6 at all, and I do have the localhost.rev and
> localhost-v6.rev added into the new BIND 9 server. Does anyone have an
> idea of how I can get this to work the way it used to?
>
>   
If you don't use IPV6 at all, why do you even bother with a 
localhost-v6.rev? Try commenting out that definition and see if your 
problem goes away.

                                                                         
            - Kevin