On Fri, 08 Mar 2002 07:49:22 -0500
begin edj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spewed forth:
> On Thu 07 Mar 02 23:05, David A. Bandel wrote:
>
> >
> > lo has come up, so can't again. But is it localhost or did you by
> > chance give 127.0.0.1 a name other than localhost in your /etc/hosts
> > file (not a good idea, BTW).
> >
>
> Why?
>
Several network programs _expect_ 127.0.0.1 to be localhost.localdomain
(or just localhost). If you assign any other name(s) to 127.0.0.1, these
programs exhibit some rather odd behavior (i.e., broken).
Ciao,
David A. Bandel
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