> Never, under any circumstances, change your machine's name to something
> other than localhost.  Your machine should always respond to "localhost",
> as it's bound to both your default IP and 127.0.0.1.
> 
> You can name your machine something in *addition* to localhost.  Man hosts.

What??  responded to 127.0.0.1 has nothing to do with the actual hostname,
of which there can only be one.  I think you are somewhat confused here..

-Randy


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