> On Jul 26, 2018, at 16:48, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>
> I still have no idea *why* the fe80::1%lo0 line is in there, or whether
> there's any downside to taking it out. File dates on my own Macs suggest
> that maybe Apple shipped some OSX versions years ago that had it in there
> by default, and that newer versions don't have it, but system upgrades
> don't replace the file if it's already present.
That seems to be correct. I'm on Sierra on a system that's been upgraded and System Migrated since 10.4, and have never installed Unreal Engine, and it's present in my /etc/hosts file.
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