Sorry, forgot something very important: If we delete the default gateway, we can ping the localhost successfully: #route del default gw 192.168.0.1 #ping localhost ... OK ... The following is the original e-mail: I am making a Java application on top of a Samsung ARM embedded platform. I can not ping the local host when trying to reach an internet address when set the default gate way to 192.168.0.1, the shell says, #ping localhost unknown host but it is strange enough that ping to 127.0.0.1 is ok. Since the X-server need to use localhost to get to the local machine, this becomes a very big problem. I have filled the /etc/hosts file with the following line, 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost and in the /etc/host.conf, ... order hosts ... I found the named is missing in my system, could this possibly be the reason? Then how can I find it? regards _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? 繁华世界里，让我看清你 http://cn.rd.yahoo.com/mail_cn/tag/?http://cn.surveys.yahoo.com/cn_user_profile_study_dec2003 _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list XFree86@xxxxxxxxxxx http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
