Why 'getent' command is resolving ipv6 address only and not ipv4 in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 ?
Issue
-
When
getent
is run withhost <self-hostname>
its resolving current system ipv6 address and not ipv4 as shown below.# getent hosts $(hostname -s) fe80::ae16:2dff:xxxx:xxxx HOSTNAME fe80::ae16:2dff:xxxx:xxxx HOSTNAME
-
Any of these ipv6 address is not mentioned in
/etc/hosts
file.
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
- getent
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