Hi, Ari: Yes, nslookup 127.0.0.1 yields name = localhost. and nslookup localhost yields address 127.0.0.1 However, and here's the problem, I think: nslookup toccata.grg.afb.net yields: Server: 127.0.0.1 Address: 127.0.0.1#53 ** server can't find toccata.grg.afb.net.: NXDOMAIN On Fri, 23 Mar 2001, Ari Moisio wrote: > Janina Sajka 23.03.01: > > HI Janina. > > Make sure localhost resolves 127.0.0.1 and 127.0.0.1 resolves > localhost with nothin trailing. Some distributions, Redhat iirc lacks a > period after > 127.0.0.1 localhost > in /etc/hosts and it makes resolver add it's own idea about domain of > 'localhost'. Try adding that period if it is not there.. > > HTH > > >Hi, Kirk: > >Thanks for the suggestion. I did as you suggested and temporarily moved > >the top line of /etc/hosts down to be the second line, so that > >toccata.grg.afb.net would be the first machine defined for address > >127.0.0.1. Regretably, this did not do the trick. The log of a fetchmail > >session is below. > > > ...ei rommi flunssaan auta mutta ompahan mukavampi sairastaa... > -- Janina Sajka, Director Technology Research and Development Governmental Relations Group American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) Email: janina at afb.net Phone: (202) 408-8175 Will electronic books surpass print books? Read our white paper, Surpassing Gutenberg, at http://www.afb.org/ebook.html Download a free sample Digital Talking Book edition of Martin Luther King Jr's inspiring "I Have A Dream" speech at http://www.afb.org/mlkweb.asp Learn how to make accessible software at http://www.afb.org/technology/accessapp.html
