Re: Need a Java/Linux RedHat 5.0 configuration where getLocalHost works

[Geoffrey S. Knauth]

Karl,

  I got a different result.  When I've typed `hostname' on my
GNU/Linux machine, I've always gotten "zhivago.bbn.com", never
"localhost".  When I first ran John Zinky's one-line test program, I
got localhost/127.0.0.1.  When I put the "zhivago" line in /etc/hosts
above the "localhost" line, only then did I get the correct output
from the test program.

Geoffrey

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