diff --git a/basis/io/sockets/sockets.factor b/basis/io/sockets/sockets.factor
index fc9b7b44cb..a9f8912136 100644
--- a/basis/io/sockets/sockets.factor
+++ b/basis/io/sockets/sockets.factor
@@ -101,7 +101,7 @@ M: ipv4 make-sockaddr ( inet -- sockaddr )
AF_INET >>family
swap
[ port>> htons >>port ]
- [ host>> "127.0.0.1" or ]
+ [ host>> "0.0.0.0" or ]
[ inet-pton uint deref >>addr ] tri ;
M: ipv4 parse-sockaddr ( sockaddr-in addrspec -- newaddrspec )
diff --git a/basis/io/sockets/windows/windows.factor b/basis/io/sockets/windows/windows.factor
index 9cdf24274a..e45eef2393 100755
--- a/basis/io/sockets/windows/windows.factor
+++ b/basis/io/sockets/windows/windows.factor
@@ -325,9 +325,3 @@ M: windows (send) ( packet addrspec datagram -- )
M: windows host-name
256 [ <byte-array> dup ] keep gethostname socket-error
ascii alien>string ;
-
-M: windows resolve-localhost
- ipv6-supported?
- { T{ ipv4 f "127.0.0.1" } T{ ipv6 f "::" } }
- { T{ ipv4 f "127.0.0.1" } }
- ? ;