That /etc/hosts, by the way, was built by the FC2 installation routine. Here's what I have: [root@satyr root]# cat /etc/hosts # Do not remove the following line, or various programs # that require network functionality will fail. 127.0.0.1 satyr.bogus.jl satyr localhost.localdomain localhost I seem to have a working system now, though it's actually horribly broken? Jorge Luis -- Jorge Luis lists+fedora@xxxxxxxx