>>>>> "John" == John White <John_White at dell.com> writes:
John> Yep - assuming your name lookup order has hosts before BIND, there
John> was a comment in the slackware hosts files of old saying that giving
John> the localhost entry a domain name in the hosts file broke things,
John> and that the only 100% reliably acceptable entry for the localhost
John> entry was . . . . .
John> 127.0.0.1 localhost
John> I'd guess you have something like
John> 127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.carnifex.home (or whatever)
John> Worth a look . . .
Bingo, thanks a million! That did fix it.
I'm including the fully quoted bit above so it's in the ilug archives, in case
anyone else runs into the same problem.
B
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