This issue has discussed many times and showed up many results. my /etc/hosts is looking like this: 127.0.0.1 link link.gwch.net localhost this means: loopback-Interface host host.domain alias for the lo-interface. it is important to understand, that the last is an alias for your localhostis absolutely needed, if you don't have this anymore on this line, your system will fail to resolve localhost. i do not need an entry, as i have my own dns-server running with dhcp and all resolv.conf's are maintained by dhcp either....so i have always the right dns-server for my zones. and dhclient on my clients sends [host] to my dns-server. HTH Roger
