yep. This did the trick! Thanks all of you for your support. On Mon, 2004-11-08 at 14:49, Roger Grosswiler wrote: > 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
