Describe the bug

As of v17, node respects the order of IP addresses returned by the system resolver.

This means localhost might resolve to 127.0.0.1 in a system and ::1 in another. As vite defaults to 127.0.0.1 and even translates localhost to it since #2977, it means starting up a vite server without a configured host (or with --host localhost) and doing net.connect(port) or net.connect(port, 'localhost') can fail.

I believe this could be fixed by defaulting to 'localhost' instead of the ipv4 here, but I'm unsure if that has negative complications:

Why was localhost considered insecure? A system might even have reasons to have it resolved to a different, local interface—however unconventional that might be.

If there are no objections, I can open a PR with that change.

Reproduction

I'm not sure how to create a reproduction; I'd have to patch node's dns resolution.

System Info

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Used Package Manager

pnpm

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