resolving localhost

[GV]

yep. This did the trick!

Thanks all of you for your support.

On Mon, 2004-11-08 at 14:49, Roger Grosswiler wrote:
> This issue has discussed many times and showed up many results.
> 
> my /etc/hosts is looking like this:
> 
> 127.0.0.1       link    link.gwch.net   localhost
> 
> this means:
> loopback-Interface host host.domain alias for the lo-interface.
> 
> it is important to understand, that the last is an alias for your localhostis absolutely needed, if you don't have
> this anymore on this line, your system will fail to resolve localhost.
> 
> i do not need an entry, as i have my own dns-server running with dhcp and all resolv.conf's are maintained by dhcp
> either....so i have always the right dns-server for my zones. and dhclient on my clients sends [host] to my
> dns-server.
> 
> HTH
> Roger