Ipv6

Article: PSA be aware of the difference between localhost and 127.0.0.1

(hic sunt localhost is a play on words from the old Hunt-Lenox-Globe which coined the phrase “Here be dragons” or “hic sunt dracones” in Latin.)

I was bit in the butt by a bug that sprung up at me over the weekend. It really wasn’t a bug, but something that did sting a little bit. Over the weekend I set up a new VPS with Linode where its only job was to be my central always-running syncthing server in the cloud. Upon first setting it up I was able to reverse SSH tunnel to it using my standard SSH config and keys using this command: