On a freshly installed (windows version of) MySQL 5.5.9
SELECT user, host FROM mysql.user
gives:
user host
root localhost
root 127.0.0.1
root ::1
localhost
But what IP/hostname does ::1 stand here for?
::1is the IPv6 address for localhost.The details (incl.those relevant to the
Windowscase) are at http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.5/en/default-privileges.html.