Re: help needed urgently with hostlookup failure ..please

2004-03-09 Thread Marcin
Hello, > My /etc/hosts file reads like this : > 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain yes because localhost and localhost.localdomain is completly different if you have put sth in localdomain name. put in /etc/hosts: 127.0.0.1 localhostlocalhost.localdomain and btw: what do you hav

Re: help needed urgently with hostlookup failure ..please

2004-03-09 Thread Marcin
Hello, > My /etc/hosts file reads like this : > 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain yes because localhost and localhost.localdomain is completly different if you have put sth in localdomain name. put in /etc/hosts: 127.0.0.1 localhostlocalhost.localdomain and btw: what do you hav

Re: help needed urgently with hostlookup failure ..please

2004-03-08 Thread Rod Rodolico
Not sure about RedHat. However. 1) Not being able to telnet to localhost may just mean that telnet is turned off. It is in Debian by default, if I remember right. Or, you could have firewall rules that prevent telnet. Try ping localhost and see if that works. 2) Assuming localhost is up, look

Re: help needed urgently with hostlookup failure ..please

2004-03-07 Thread Rod Rodolico
Not sure about RedHat. However. 1) Not being able to telnet to localhost may just mean that telnet is turned off. It is in Debian by default, if I remember right. Or, you could have firewall rules that prevent telnet. Try ping localhost and see if that works. 2) Assuming localhost is up, look