[Xcb] [PATCH] Bug: Can’t connect to localhost without global connectivity

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

Le samedi 13 août 2011 22:54:05 Michael Stapelberg, vous avez écrit :
> 2) Drop the AI_ADDRCONFIG flag only when connecting to localhost,
>    127.0.0.0/8 or [::1]. This is a work-around, but should do the trick
>    for most use cases. I have attached a patch for this.

There are infinitely many ways to refer to localhost. And I wouldn't 
underestimate the originality of people setting DISPLAY, e.g.:

localhost.localdomain,
any representation of an IPv4 address in 127.0.0.0/8, such as 127.0.0.2 or 
127.0.0.001,
any representation of ::1, such a 0:0:0:0:0:0:0:1,
any hostname pointing to localhost in /etc/hosts (this is typical of the 
actual "hostname").

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