::1 is the IPv6 loopback address

> My /etc/httpd/conf.d/BackupPC.conf file (which is the default in
> Fedora 12) restricts access to localhost (which makes sense) as
> follows:
>    allow from 127.0.0.1
>
> My /etc/hosts file has these (Fedora default) lines at the top:
>    127.0.0.1   localhost localhost.localdomain localhost4
> localhost4.localdomain4 mycomputer.mydomain
>    ::1         localhost localhost.localdomain localhost6
> localhost6.localdomain6 mycomputer.mydomain
>
> When I access the web interface from my Console, using either
> http://127.0.0.1/BackupPC or http://localhost/BackupPC, everything
> works (as expected) and the httpd access_log records the access as coming
> from 127.0.0.1
>
> However when I access the web interface via an ssh tunnel using
> -L 8145:localhost:80 and http://127.0.0.1:8145/BackupPC, somehow the
> address gets translated to ::1 (as shown by the httpd error_log
> records) which causes access to be denied.
>
> Now I know I can fix this either by removing the ::1 line from the
> hosts file or by adding ::1 to the /etc/httpd/conf.d/BackupPC.conf
> file.
>
> But I want to understand first why in an ssh tunnel the 127.0.0.1:8145
> address would be translated to ::1 rather than to 127.0.0.1


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