FC5 127.0.0.1 refuses connection

[Craig White]

On Fri, 2006-03-31 at 12:25 -0800, Geoffrey Leach wrote:
> New update of FC5. Connection to internet (via eth0 and satellite) OK.
> However ...
> 
> #sendmail -v root
> test
> .
> root... Connecting to [127.0.0.1] via relay...
> root... Deferred: Connection refused by [127.0.0.1]
> 
> telnet, fetchmail, binmail (of course) have same problem. Can ping  
> 127.0.0.1
> 
> Presumably related to update.
> 
> Any suggestions?
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problem is likely to be in the first 3 lines of /etc/hosts

The first 2 lines tell you what you shouldn't do and the 3rd line is
what I'm guessing that you did

Craig