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Right I am working on a few sites, using virtual hosts (vhosts) on my local developing machine.

I've altered the windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts file to include some fake domain names that just go to my localhost using ::1 (I chose ::1 because, (A) it is shorter than 127.0.0.1 (B) IPv6 will become the 'next thing')

The problem however it works in firefox and IE9, but not in Chrome. I have to manually enable IPv6 DNS lookup. Not a big deal here. But I need to do it everytime I (re)start Chrome.

Was wondering if there was an easier way for this. Else I'll just revert to using 127.0.0.1

Extra information: I am using the dev-channel releases of Google Chrome. My current version is: 17.0.963.12 dev-m

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It probably would have taken less time for you to have changed all the entries from ::1 to 127.0.0.1 (especially if you used CTRL+H) than it did to type up your question (or my comment). :D – shufler Dec 29 '11 at 18:48
Stop using a dev-channel release. – Ramhound Dec 30 '11 at 21:10
@shufler done that for the time being. Still finding it odd though. – Daan Timmer Dec 31 '11 at 2:39
@Ramhound, with what reason? – Daan Timmer Dec 31 '11 at 2:39
@Daan Timmer - Because you are having problems with a preview release? Try the current release version, see if the problem exists, if it doesn't then you will understand the reason. – Ramhound Jan 3 at 14:27
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