Re: gpsfake - update log file while running?

[Andreas B]

Gary,

Based on Martin's suggestion, I commented out '::1 localhost'.
That made me able to connect to 'localhost' (with ipv4).

I wanted to confirm that gpsd does not listen to ::1.
To my surprise, it actually does.

Best,
Andreas

On Tue, Jul 25, 2023 at 8:03 PM Gary E. Miller <gem@rellim.com> wrote:
>
> Yo Martin!
>
> On Tue, 25 Jul 2023 11:09:06 +0200
> Martin Burnicki <martin.burnicki@burnicki.net> wrote:
>
> > Andreas B wrote:
> > > Gary,
> > >
> > > Thanks.
> > >
> > > I checked /etc/hosts and localhost is there.
> > > No big problem, just curious.
> >
> > Maybe 'localhost' also resolves to an IPv6 address, which can't be
> > handled?
> >
> > 127.0.0.1 is clearly an IPv4 address.
>
> AFAIK, all of gpsd supports IPv6, except gps2udp and lcdgps.  Miroslav
> Lichvar has an MR almost ready to go to fix those.
>
> Doing some IPv6 tests would be illuminating.
>
> RGDS
> GARY
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