>> >> My chosen machine name was "localhost", problem partially lies here. > > Yeah, man. > > My uncle Harry had a similar problem when it occurred to him that--for > reasons of simplicity and because of a failing memory--he might christen > two recently-purchased kittens with identical names. Whenever he called > one of them there would be a considerable delay (each of them assuming > he was calling the other). > > Of course cats never come when you call them anyway (which is a clue > the story may be apocryphal). > > BTW, did you get the memo? > > http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1912.txt > >
>From rfc1912: ----- Translating 127.0.0.1 into "localhost.dom.ain" can cause some software to connect back to the loopback interface when it didn't want to because "localhost" is not equal to "localhost.dom.ain". ----- Thanks for the memo. Seems the solution is to not call machine localhost, if insist in doing so, be sure it contains a "localhost.localdomain" line in /etc/hosts. I believe topic is closed with this. Thanks x9p