"getaddrinfo: No address associated with hostname" when connecting to loopback
Issue
- Application returns error
getaddrinfo: No address associated with hostnamewhen connecting tolocalhost:
$ nc -6 localhost 12345
nc: getaddrinfo: No address associated with hostname
- Getting local host error even when run with user account or root
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
- Network connection to
localhost
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