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[edj]

On Wednesday 28 January 2004 07:33 am, David A. Bandel wrote:
>
> The rest of the story will be found in /etc/hosts.  I never assume
> someone else's system is correctly set up.  But that :0.0 entry has
> to map to something (hostname or ip).  When is localhost !=
> 127.0.0.1? When /etc/hosts has been set up incorrectly like this
> perhaps: 127.0.0.1  myhostname
> because perhaps during installation the network wasn't set up, so the
> helpful distro install did something bozo.  I've seen it often
> enough.

Then something's wrong here.  "achilles" is the local machine.  If it's 
relevant, ftp works one machine to another.
============================
[Wed Jan 28] edj:/etc$ cat hosts
127.0.0.1       localhost achilles
192.168.1.101   achilles
192.168.1.100   Boadicea
192.168.1.103   enigma2
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Thanks to all for the replies.

-- 
Ed Jabbour