Mysql localhost != 127.0.0.1?

Question

$ mysql -u root -h 127.0.0.1 -e 'show tables' created_from_host;
+-----------------------------+
| Tables_in_created_from_host |
+-----------------------------+
| test                        |
+-----------------------------+

$ mysql -u root -h localhost -e 'show tables' created_from_host;
ERROR 1049 (42000): Unknown database 'created_from_host'

$ cat /etc/hosts
127.0.0.1       localhost.localdomain localhost
127.0.0.1       localhost
::1     localhost6.localdomain6 localhost6

How could it be? And main question - how to grant ALL privileges on ALL databases from ALL hosts for root?

UPD:

$ mysql -u root -h 127.0.0.1 -pzenoss -e "show grants";
+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Grants for root@localhost                                                                                                              |
+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON *.* TO 'root'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY PASSWORD '*3715D7F2B0C1D26D72357829DF94B81731174B8C' WITH GRANT OPTION |
| GRANT PROXY ON ''@'' TO 'root'@'localhost' WITH GRANT OPTION                                                                           |
+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
$ mysql -u root -h localhost -pzenoss -e "show grants";
+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Grants for root@localhost                                                                                                              |
+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON *.* TO 'root'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY PASSWORD '*3715D7F2B0C1D26D72357829DF94B81731174B8C' WITH GRANT OPTION |
| GRANT PROXY ON ''@'' TO 'root'@'localhost' WITH GRANT OPTION                                                                           |
+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+

UPD2:

zends> SHOW GLOBAL VARIABLES LIKE 'skip_networking';
+-----------------+-------+
| Variable_name   | Value |
+-----------------+-------+
| skip_networking | OFF   |
+-----------------+-------+
1 row in set (0.00 sec)

zends> SELECT user,host FROM mysql.user WHERE user='root'; 
+------+-----------------------+
| user | host                  |
+------+-----------------------+
| root | 127.0.0.1             |
| root | ::1                   |
| root | localhost             |
| root | localhost.localdomain |
+------+-----------------------+
4 rows in set (0.00 sec)

Answer 1

As you can see here, a UNIX mysqld uses sockets if used without a host name or with the host name localhost.

So it makes a difference, and in the GRANT system this difference becomes evident.