As Michael pointed out, I would be changing the hosts file anyways. I was
going to post this earlier, but only had access to mail from a phone.

I'd be inclined to drop localhost.localhost and localhost from the ipv6
section of the hosts file..

On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 5:58 PM, Michael Chesterton <[email protected]
> wrote:

> On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 5:35 PM, <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > On Wed, June 20, 2012 3:34 pm, [email protected] wrote:
> > > What does hosts file look like on this client?
> >
> > Michael:
> >
> > 127.0.0.1       localhost.localdomain   localhost.localdomain
> localhost4
> >     localhost4.localdomain4        localhost       my_hostname
> > ::1     localhost.localdomain   localhost.localdomain   localhost6
> > localhost6.localdomain6localhost       my_hostname
>
>
> It wasn't the cause of your problem, but it's not the best idea to put
> my_hostname on the localhost line.
> If you have a static ip for eth0 add a separate line like
>
> 1.2.3.4 my_hostname.my_domain my_hostname
>
> where 1.2.3.4 is your eth0/wlan0/whatever address. If you don't have a
> static ip, say a roaming laptop, use
>
> 127.0.1.1 my_hostname.my_domain my_hostname
>
> That way forward and reverse lookups will make sense. If you do that, don't
> forget to remove my_hostname from the localhost{,6} line.
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