On Mon, 2004-11-01 at 20:17, Shawn Kovalchick wrote: > I'm trying to set up a postgresql server on FC2, and it seems that the server > is unable to look up 127.0.0.1. Further investigation shows that dig > is unable to return anything for localhost or a reverse lookup for > 127.0.0.1. /etc/hosts has an entry for 127.0.0.1 pointing to > localhost and localhost.localdomain. Am I missing something? > > Relevant sections of configuration files follow: > > /etc/nsswitch.conf contains this line: > hosts: files dns > > /etc/hosts contains: > 127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.localdomain > > I apologize if this has been double posted, it appears that the > initial post didn't take, as I was not yet signed up on the list. What does the out put of /sbin/ifconfig lo give? MC