Nathan Moore said... |[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# cat /etc/hosts |# Do not remove the following line, or various programs |# that require network functionality will fail. |127.0.0.1 buff localhost.localdomain localhost |::1 localhost6.localdomain6 localhost6 | |Can someone explain what the "localhost6" does?
I'm guessing from the format and that the line contains three sixes (666!) that it's IPV6 stuff. Which doresn't help with your other problem. What is your nsswitch.conf entry for hosts? Does NIS or LDAP factor in?
