Not born that way.  I've migrated several laptops.  This is the first time I 
lost /etc/hosts.

> On 2018-10-19, at 05:01, Peter Dalgaard <pda...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> What? Are they born that way, or does Migration Assistent bungle things up? 
> Or maybe OpenVPN does?
> 
> Anyways, try adding a line saying
> 
> 127.0.0.1     localhost
> 
> -pd
> 
>> On 19 Oct 2018, at 00:34 , Ben Tupper <btup...@bigelow.org> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> 
>> ben@gale ~ $ ping localhost
>> ping: cannot resolve localhost: Unknown host
>> 
>> Here's /etc/hosts in its entirety.
>> 
>> ben@gale ~ $ more /etc/hosts
>> # BEGIN section for OpenVPN Client SSL sites
>> 127.94.0.1      client.openvpn.net
>> 127.94.0.2      openvpn-client.vpn.bigelow.org
>> # END section for OpenVPN Client SSL sites
>> 
>> I'm not currently using VPN.
>> 
>> 
>>> On Oct 18, 2018, at 6:29 PM, peter dalgaard <pda...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Cannot _find_ localhost?? Can you do this (in a Terminal window) ?
>>> 
>>> Peter-Dalgaards-MacBook-Air:STAT pd$ ping localhost
>>> PING localhost (127.0.0.1): 56 data bytes
>>> Request timeout for icmp_seq 0
>>> Request timeout for icmp_seq 1
>>> ^C
>>> --- localhost ping statistics ---
>>> 3 packets transmitted, 0 packets received, 100.0% packet loss
>>> 
>>> If not, what is in the first couple of lines in /etc/hosts?
>>> 
>>> -pd
>>> 
>>>> On 19 Oct 2018, at 00:09 , Ben Tupper <btup...@bigelow.org> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> Just a little followup.  Switching the default browser from Firefox to 
>>>> Safari yields a similar message in the browser after...
>>>> 
>>>> Browse[2]> browseURL(x)
>>>> 
>>>> 'Safari can't open the page "localhost:29682/library/utils/html/help.html"
>>>> because Safari can't find the server "localhost".'
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> -- 
>>> Peter Dalgaard, Professor,
>>> Center for Statistics, Copenhagen Business School
>>> Solbjerg Plads 3, 2000 Frederiksberg, Denmark
>>> Phone: (+45)38153501
>>> Office: A 4.23
>>> Email: pd....@cbs.dk  Priv: pda...@gmail.com
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>> 
>> Ben Tupper
>> Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences
>> 60 Bigelow Drive, P.O. Box 380
>> East Boothbay, Maine 04544
>> http://www.bigelow.org
>> 
>> Ecological Forecasting: https://eco.bigelow.org/
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
> 
> -- 
> Peter Dalgaard, Professor,
> Center for Statistics, Copenhagen Business School
> Solbjerg Plads 3, 2000 Frederiksberg, Denmark
> Phone: (+45)38153501
> Office: A 4.23
> Email: pd....@cbs.dk  Priv: pda...@gmail.com
> 
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