Pyth7 wrote: > Am new to Fedora 5 and linux in general. > Is there something -a service(?)- I need to > to start to enable applications to connect on > localhost? > I am trying to run an application (FreeWRL) > that uses a tcp socket connection in a server/client > relationship using "localhost" port 9877. > The client part can't connect and times out > ,though the server part seems to run fine > per se. Can you post /etc/hosts and confirm that it begins like this: # Do not remove the following line, or various programs # that require network functionality will fail. 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost Can you run ping localhost (from a terminal session), leave it for five seconds, press Ctrl-C Thanks, James. -- E-mail: james@ | You shouldn't worry, insanity of the right kind is really aprilcottage.co.uk | rather pleasant, as my good friend Colin the llama would | agree. | -- Dan Holdsworth