Enabling "localhost" for Applications?

[Russ Kinter]

Hi James,
Many thanks! Adding "127.0.0.1       localhost.localdomain   localhost"
to the hosts file got the client/server application(s) to connect.
Those commented warnings were not kidding.

Thanks,
Russ Kinter

> Can you post /etc/hosts and confirm that it begins like this:
> # Do not remove the following line, or various programs
> # that require network functionality will fail.
> 127.0.0.1       localhost.localdomain   localhost
> 
> Can you run
> ping localhost
> (from a terminal session), leave it for five seconds, press Ctrl-C
> 
> Thanks,
> James.
>