[issue8598] test/support: don't use localhost as IPv6 host name

[R. David Murray]

R. David Murray <rdmurray at bitdance.com> added the comment:

All of my Gentoo systems except one have localhost on the ::1 line.  The one that doesn't hasn't been updated in several years.  That one has the same entry for ::1 as your Ubuntu.

The FreeBSD 6.3 box I have access to has localhost on the ::1 line.

It has long been true that there are test failures if the testing system cannot resolve its own hostname, which often requires "fixing" /etc/hosts on linux systems.  You could call this bug a local system configuration error, too, but whether or not that is politic depends on whether or not there are in fact standard distributions that don't have localhost on the ::1 line.

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