Hi! On Sun, 26 Dec 2004, Ryan D'Baisse wrote: > Peter, I'm also a newbie. How could you tell from his post that he > changed the loopback? I am used to seeing the LO entry from > "ifconfig." Yep, lo is there. But it was mentioned that the localhost<->127.0.0.1 assignment was deleted from /etc/hosts. If you look at it, the /etc/hosts file posted here didn't include that line. If you look at yours, you will hopefully find that there :-) -- Zizi "Meg nincs teljesen kesz, de mar majdnem elkezdtuk!"