Re: [monit] monit on freebsd

[Jan-Henrik Haukeland]

On 15. mars. 2008, at 02.24, Francois wrote:

> The hosts file on all my freebsd systems looks like this:
>
> ::1                      localhost
> 127.0.0.1            localhost
>
> I just tried removing the first entry. After doing so I still cannot  
> connect to the relevant port on 127.0.0.1. However, if I then  
> stopped and restarted the ferret server I was then able to connect   
> to the relevant port on 127.0.0.1.
>  So it seems that if that ::1 entry is present in /etc/hosts the  
> ferret server will somehow bind to that instead of 127.0.0.1
>  But before I permanently remove that ::1 entry I'll have to see if  
> I can learn more about it to ensure that removing it doesn't cause  
> any unwanted side effects.

The ferret server seems to be using IPv6 when available, while monit  
only supports Ipv4. You could try to change the order in /etc/hosts so

127.0.0.1            localhost

comes before

::1                      localhost

Its a long shoot, if this does not help and you want to use IPv6 for  
the loopback device, try to configure the ferret server to use both IP- 
versions. Though removing ::1 and using Ipv4 for 127.0.0.1 only should  
not have side effects as servers speaking IPv6 also supports IPv4  
(usually).

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