On 5/14/07, Jordan Bray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've given up trying to solve this one alone... I have my /etc/hosts > file set up properly, I have loopback support working fine (ping > 127.0.0.1 works) and I have networking support working (ping > google.com works). But, for some reason, ping localhost fails. > localhost is in the /etc/hosts file with 127.0.0.1 as the ip address.
First, could you show /etc/hosts (at least the 127.0.0.1 entry)? Second, what do you have in /etc/nsswitch.conf for the hosts entry? Should be: hosts: files dns Also, what's the output of "getent hosts localhost"? -- Dan -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
